Hehehe … I love it:
Selling Son’s Beloved Play Station 2 For Punishment!
Parent sells childs playstation as punishment
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Monthly Archives: June 2004
Email from an ‘IBM Business Consultant’
I received a rather interesting email from an IBM Business Consultant the other day.
Elizabeth said …
I wanted to touch base with someone in your organization who is responsible for your technology purchases for your end user needs (i.e. xSeries, Intel servers, Rational software, services etc.) I’m newly assigned to your account for your end user purposes, hoping to better explain my role and the value I can add to your account.
Now, the interesting thing about this is … I don’t have an IBM account … and I am certianly not an IBM partner (not in the official sense, anyway) … and I also do not use any of the systems or services mentioned (not from IBM at least). So I’m not sure where she would have gotten my contact information.
The even more interesting bit of information is this: Her title is “IBM Business Consultant, Metro New York/New Jersey”.
Now why would a business consulting in the NY/NJ area, be contacting me? I’m in the Chicago area. If you do a whois lookup on midrange.com, you will find that the zone contact listed is register.com … and they are in New York.
Could it be that some IBM’ers are farming the whois database’s for email addresses?
Globetechnology: Internet attacks can hit your pocketbook
Internet attacks can hit your pocketbook
Jim Carroll was stunned when Rogers Cable told him it had received a complaint that a hacker was using his Internet address.
Must be a mistake, he told Rogers, his Internet provider. Then a tech helper at the company walked him through his setup and discovered that indeed, he had inadvertently left his business Web server unprotected. It was what is called an “open relay. Someone found it, posted Mr. Carroll’s address on more than 100 Russian bulletin boards, and soon hundreds of people were using Mr. Carroll’s machine to surf anonymously.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for so called ‘noted high-tech authority’ who leaves his mail server relay function open.
Ordinary users who inadvertatly get infected with spam bots I understand … but people who understand technology should know better.