[anti-abuse-wg] Mailman

Yes, we have.

This is a Ccommon hoax send as SPAM  and the intention is to scare folks to pay.

SPAM is the problem here!



On Monday 22 October 2018 07.50, ac wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I will be repeating this post on four Mailman mailing lists....
> 
> I received one of these: "I hacked your account, here is your password
> and pay me bitcoin" scam emails - to andre at ox.co.za with the password I
> used on anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net (and three other Mailman lists only...)
> 
> As I use different passwords, change my passwords (up to now, except
> for mailing lists), every 7 to 30 days, I am usually able to know
> exactly where, when so that I can go look for the how, etc.  As
> unfortunately I used the same email and same password on four lists, I
> do not know which list data has been compromised. 
> 
> If anyone else receives similar email with a password used on
> anti-abuse, please let us know...
> 
> For abuse discussion purposes: With which frequency should one change
> mailing list passwords? And, is it even that important? Compromising a
> mailing list password allows whomever to change my digest options and
> nothing much else, so, does it really matter?
> 
> One should have one password for each mailing list (and not one for
> four...) but, is it important enough, in terms of abuse itself, to
> even change these monthly? or maybe yearly? or maybe not at all?
> 
> Andre 
> 
> 

-- 
        Peter Håkanson   

        There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it
        again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
        ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )