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[TheFaQQer]

Someone tried to hack CMs account!

Sorry - I tried all the obvious passwords (spank, doggy, hot lunch, spanking, blonde) but had to give up in the end.

[TheFaQQer]

A strongly worded email has been sent!

The cads!

More likely to be a bounder than a cad, one would have thought.

[NickFitz]

Evening denizens

Shopping's done

I wonder what I forgot this time

[DaveB]

Had a bit of a prod and that server look like it's part of the proxy service operated by these guys. http://www.hidemyass.com/

So, whoever was having a go at CM's account, they at least know enough or are smart enough to use a proxy to cover their tracks.

Having dealt with these guys and others in the past getting any info out of them without resort to formal legal proceedings is not going to get anywhere.

For the time being the best you can do is to ask the admins to confirm the activity and it's source and block access from the associated address range, at least temporarily.

[TheFaQQer]

Tea time



(Oh, and the key posts doc is up to date too).

[cailin maith]

Had a bit of a prod and that server look like it's part of the proxy service operated by these guys. http://www.hidemyass.com/

So, whoever was having a go at CM's account, they at least know enough or are smart enough to use a proxy to cover their tracks.

Having dealt with these guys and others in the past getting any info out of them without resort to formal legal proceedings is not going to get anywhere.

For the time being the best you can do is to ask the admins to confirm the activity and it's source and block access from the associated address range, at least temporarily.

Crikey Dave - that's all gone over my head...

Just wonder who it was....

[voodooflux]

[DaveB]

Crikey Dave - that's all gone over my head...

Just wonder who it was....

hidemyass.com is a free web proxy service. You go their site, enter the address of the site you want to look at and they display it for you. Your computer never touches the target site and is never recorded in it's access logs so no-one can prove you looked at it.

They sell themselves as a way to get at BeBo, YouTube, Facebook etc from schools and offices that would otherwise block access.

A side effect of this is that if you wanted to try and get into a site that required a username and password, like CUK, you can do it without CUK knowing who it is trying to get in.

As for who it is, we can narrow the field a little to someone who knows enough about you that they know you post here and what your CUK name is. So unless you told lots of people IRL what your CUK name is, chances are it is someone else who hangs out on CUK.

If we know the date and time they tried it and can compare that to the list of people online at that time then based on previous experience, I'd be prepared to bet a decent amount of money that it was one of those people.

[voodooflux]

Had a bit of a prod and that server look like it's part of the proxy service operated by these guys. http://www.hidemyass.com/

Nice work Dave - out of interest how did you tie the IP to them?

[Bear]

Evening all

Haw are we all?

I'm on a very packed train out of city.

There's a young girl with absolutely no ettiquette in front of me, she's wearing a very short skirt and has sat down on the floor with her knees up!

What's the world coming to?