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I have this habit of cleaning up the spam folder regularly. This morning when I opened it to clean, there were 2 spam mails. One of them from a someone named as a former colleague of mine. For a second I was a bit confused.
There hasn't been any interaction between us for years now and all of a sudden that name pops up. I am not sure if this was just a coincidence or someone has access to my contacts.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Spammers love harvesting address books. If they have his address book, they can spam his contacts with a better-than-otherwise chance of it getting through filters, automated and human.
Odds on, he's fallen for some sort of phishing.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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LOL, the same thing has happened to me a few times too. I seriously doubt it was a coincidence, especially if there is a link on the email. The last time was from a former co-worker that I didn't even care for or even socialized with. It's a little strange seeing "Hi Joe!" from someone like that.
I believe what happens is a computer with an email client on it, such as Outlook, is infected with a virus. The virus exports the computer's address book to some distant server and harvests it into a giant list meant for spamming and whatnot. Doing a quick google it looks pretty easy to use PowerShell or even worse, VBScript to export an Outlook address book. Thus, I'm very suspicious when I receive an email from someone that I do not socialize with.
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My bloody accountant got hacked a couple of years ago and I got an email with an attachment from them, not an unusual occurrence, however the wording was suspicious and I NEVER get a tax refund.
I do believe a secretary was sacked over the incident, which is a bit harsh on a 16yo kid but I was one of the few who caught the attack, a lot got through apparently.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: "and I NEVER get a tax refund."
and I know why that is so.
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Santa's Village — Google Santa Tracker[^]
Time for some productivity increase at work ! 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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That there Santa Claus wants to learn how to turn off his location settings and stop Google invading his privacy.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Quote: Officials confirmed late Wednesday that they will not pay the ransom to unlock many of the county's applications that have been frozen since Monday.
Quote: “I am confident that our backup data is secure and we have the resources to fix this situation ourselves,”
Scary ransomware attacks famous North Carolina county[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Local Government eh? Took 3 days to realize their computers weren't working.
And how many people have been on hold since Monday?
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Sounds like business as usual to me.
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Cut them some slack. It's most likely a large network and most computers / servers are probably infected and need to be restored. Data needs to be restored from backups. That will all take time. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I present to you evidence to support this claim...
Clickety[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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forgetfulness headache: is forgetting the wife's birthday a medical condition?
head lac: lactating??? cream in your mustache?
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I took one look and understood what they meant. Not sure why a comma would be needed, it makes perfect sense as is. I can see how someone with a very dirty mind might parse that without a comma, but that's on them, not the writer of the card.
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I was thinking the same thing too, but decided to seize the chance to post a picture about diarrhea instead.
Jeremy Falcon
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You got your priorities right, Jeremy.  
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Jeremy Falcon
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You're not from Arkansas, are you? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Born in Georgia, moved to Virginia, then to Oklahoma, then to Kansas, then to Iowa, then within Iowa, then to Indiana, then within Indiana, and then again within Indiana.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It must be the California public schooling but where would the comma go and how would it make it different?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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For what is on the card, a comma would be bad (but sadly common) grammar. An Oxford comma would require a list of at least three items.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Hi, I have been asked to take a Codility test. Anybody has experience with that? It looks like most people hate it.
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What the hell is a Codility test?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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