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| Thread ID: 129216 | 2013-02-10 20:03:00 | Yahoo Hacked | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1327381 | 2013-02-11 21:19:00 | AND the Pc crashes -- Read and say it all, not just parts that suit your purposes. So far 7 calls now, all the same thing - clicked on those links and computers crash or lockup within seconds. They could be using some drive-by browser exploit or such to ensure their malware runs... in that case, access it on Linux or something, should be no problem there. Nor can I understand why so many people use @xtra.co.nz as an email domain for their business, especially given to number of issues Yahoo has had over the years. Because prior to Yahoo! becoming their email provider, Telecom handled it themselves and it was much better. Probably these people have accounts from back then. They likely also don't want to change from fear of losing customers, because a lot of idiots will probably be unable to handle an email address change, or something. :rolleyes: |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1327382 | 2013-02-11 21:25:00 | They likely also don't want to change from fear of losing customers, because a lot of idiots will probably be unable to handle an email address change, or something. :rolleyes: They don't want to change because no email client or service in existence supports POP or anything like it that can fetch old emails. (yes, that was sarcastic) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1327383 | 2013-02-11 21:54:00 | Seems theres more to this phishing than just that -- It appears the links can contain malware as well. Had several calls from people who have had these mails, and they cant change passwords as Xtra suggest- the PC simply crashes. I asked on Twitter and Telecom PR said: "Some customers are having trouble resetting due to overloading on the tool... but a crashing PC is a new one on me. Our advice is 'keep trying the tool', we're obviously looking at it and thank folk for their patience" I've asked them to take a look at the thread. |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1327384 | 2013-02-11 21:56:00 | tvnz.co.nz | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1327385 | 2013-02-11 23:08:00 | So far I haven't been spammed/spammed anyone with either my xtra account or my two yahoo accounts, however I when go to "account info" on all three accounts ("account info" is in the drop down menu underneath your name on top left corner of web mail page) a second tab opens with another login page to verify my password, which is normal, however this second login page has a warning from NoScript (a script blocking plugin in FF) across the top that an XSS attempt was blocked from the yahoo mail server. I get the same warning in all three of my accounts by doing the same thing, only the name of the mail server at mail.yahoo.com being filtered is changed for each of my three accounts (as they're all on different servers). I'm not getting that NoScript warning from any other page on yahoo/yahoo!xtra from what I can tell, including the initial login page. Yahoo say they've fixed that cross site scripting exploit but NoScript begs to differ. Haven't entered my PW on this second login page to get to my account information, but that's where you have to go in order to change your account info including your PW (as Telecom are recommending their customers do), which maybe explains some of the problems people are having still? Dunno, but am waiting for a phone back from Telecom to give them this info in case it's helpful. |
catspyjamas (15614) | ||
| 1327386 | 2013-02-11 23:18:00 | Does any one know if they are going to do anything about this? or do they have to rely on all their users to change their passwords | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1327387 | 2013-02-12 00:02:00 | AND the Pc crashes -- Read and say it all, not just parts that suit your purposes. So far 7 calls now, all the same thing - clicked on those links and computers crash or lockup within seconds. Yes I did. Don't see anything about changing a password causing the PCs to crash. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1327388 | 2013-02-12 01:02:00 | Who said anything about changing passwords making the Computers crash - wasn't me. I said they clicked on the links in the mails and the computers crashed - two totally different things. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1327389 | 2013-02-12 01:05:00 | Who said anything about changing passwords making the Computers crash - wasn't me. I said they clicked on the links in the mails and the computers crashed - two totally different things. I think people inferred it from this: Had several calls from people who have had these mails, and they cant change passwords as Xtra suggest- the PC simply crashes. While you appear to have meant that the PC crashes and they can't restart it in order to change passwords using that PC, it can also be read as saying that when they go to change the password, it crashes. I can see how the misunderstanding arose, so thanks for clarifying. |
Zara Baxter (16260) | ||
| 1327390 | 2013-02-12 01:23:00 | So much crashing, so little time ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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