{"id":9969,"date":"2012-11-20T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:44:39","slug":"damn-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=9969","title":{"rendered":"Damn hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon people. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. It looks like some cretin managed to hack one of our email accounts. We started seeing a large number of bounce back and mail delayed messages a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I contacted our Hosting Service and asked them to verify what I was seeing. Yep, they cracked a password. If you have been getting crap mail from an angry.net email address, we apologize. I have reset all passwords and that should help. However, there may be a few more loads of manure moving through the mails servers.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately\u00a0we can&#8217;t track these little thugs down and shoot them in the back of the head. Law enforcement frowns on that.<\/p>\n<p>If you have\u00a0received\u00a0any of this crap, we do apologize.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-9969\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"044ea501ac\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_9969_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(9969, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_9969_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(9969, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_9969_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(9969, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_9969_4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(9969, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_9969_5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(9969, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> (<strong>2<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>0.00<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_9969_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-9969-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon people. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. It looks like some cretin managed to hack one of our email accounts. We started seeing a large number of bounce back and mail delayed messages a couple of days ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=9969\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,32,57],"tags":[3,40,57,26],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general","category-technology","tag-crime","tag-general-housekeeping","tag-technology","tag-terrorists"],"views":648,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14699,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=14699","url_meta":{"origin":9969,"position":0},"title":"Site issues","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"April 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Good afternoon all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. Shortly after the Angry Webmaster's last posting, the site went down. We were offline for about 30 minutes. When I tried to access the other domains we manage, (Which we won't tell you about), I found they were offline as well.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Angry Systems Administrator","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13317,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=13317","url_meta":{"origin":9969,"position":1},"title":"Web site issues","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"November 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. For the last few days, we have been seeing some sluggishness and timeout issues with the web site as well as others we manage.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45248,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=45248","url_meta":{"origin":9969,"position":2},"title":"Site issue due to spammer","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"June 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello everyone. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. It's been a while since I posted anything. I've been quietly toiling away in the background. Tuesday June 24, the site went down for the first time in quite a while. The reason for this was the site IP address being blocked\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/736x\/6b\/0d\/dd\/6b0dddb274a5b4997aa642ad950cde6f.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3473,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=3473","url_meta":{"origin":9969,"position":3},"title":"Loads of new user accounts?","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"February 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Good morning, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. We've been seeing a rash of new user sign ups, but almost nothing showing up in postings.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15695,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15695","url_meta":{"origin":9969,"position":4},"title":"Spammers keep trying and keep failing","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"August 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. This will be brief. In the last week, we have seen a massive increase in attempts to spam our comments system. Nice try morons. I won't say our spam suppression system is bullet proof, but it is bullet resistant.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Angry Systems Administrator","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3478,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=3478","url_meta":{"origin":9969,"position":5},"title":"missing comments","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"February 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Good morning, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. The Angry Webmaster got an email asking if a comment had been rejected. We have rejected a few, but these were obvious spam.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}