Heartbleed Virus

[Eli]

Nah, people who do those sorts of things do them surreptitiously, not blatantly where any theft or hacking can easily be traced back to them.

I've changed out an iPhone screen before and disabling the screen lock to make the repair makes life a whole lot easier. They did it in 30 minutes, which is kicking ass, not enough time to mess with your phone AND make the repair.

I'm not an iPhone person, wifey and daughter have them. But, I'm pretty sure you only disabled your screen lock code, for continued access they would need your passwords (email/iCloud), and those are stored encrypted and not in plain text (text as opposed to the dots obscuring the text). True, they could have viewed or even downloaded pics and contacts...but geeks like that are looking for 20-something year old nudie pics. If you were a pain in their butt, they probably just wanted to get you the hell out of there.

Maybe some others can chime in on the iPhone stuff?

Thanks! I'm sure he was just being nice. I wasn't a pain, he was just very kind.

There are no 20 something year old nudie pics on my phone that's for sure!


Sent from my Bat Cave

[C-2]

Another interesting tidbit.

You know that joke Robert Duvall told Sean Penn in Colors? There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: "Hey pop, let's say we run down there and fuck one of them cows". The older one says: "No son. Lets walk down and fuck 'em all".

The buzz in the security world these days is that a compromised (hijacked/hacked) Facebook or Twitter account is more valuable than a stolen credit card number.

The logic being, a stolen credit card number...they make a run on it, but it is usually shut down pretty quick.

But, a person identifies so much useful information in a social media account - that you can take that info and create a second, fake identity of the victim. Then you can buy cars, obtain several credit cards, loans, instant credit jewelery accounts...true identity theft.