Hi Band-mates!

Some of you may have seen this in the past days and weeks: there is a
scheme going around that shows itself as a very convincing email from
someone close to you stating that they went on weekend trip to London,
lost their bags, and need you to phone them some money. Ignore it!

If you use web-based services like Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail and AOL,
consider changing your passwords to non-obvious, non-dictionary pass
phrases. It seems that Yahoo! and Hotmail are the services hosting the
accounts that are getting hacked in this way the most; the problem is
that dictionary-based passwords on web-based email services are
trivially easy to hack; long, random passwords are statistically
better (but not perfect).

Have a GREAT one!

John

-- 
John S. Erickson, Ph.D.
http://bitwacker.com
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