[Harp-L] re what a beautiful and amazing place

owner-harp-l@xxxxx owner-harp-l@xxxxx
Tue Mar 28 11:30:29 EDT 2017


Yes another link from a compromised subscriber account that you should not
click on.  This one unlike one of the others just sends you to an amazing
weight loss site.  I sandboxed it before I clicked it so don't worry about
me but unless you understand what I just typed do not click the link. 
Some of the other links were more nefarious than this one.  What appears
to be happening is that people with long standing harp-l accounts for
whatever reason are having their e-mail  accounts compromised.  This last
address had been subscribed since 2009.  Once the accounts are compromised
the contents of the inbox, address book etc are used to generate phishing
e-mails which get sent to people who have reasons to trust the originating
address.  Harp-l itself has not been compromised.  These e-mails are
created on the subscriber's e-mail accounts then mailed to the list.

I do have a fix but it's rather drastic and it would delay list e-mails
considerably.  If the problem persists I will go ahead and try the fix
which I will not detail here for fear of tipping my hand. Now that's
paranoid.

harp-l-listowner



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