Egyptian Cracker
When I fired up my PC this morning, Skype began to run automatically, as usual, but then, instead of signing in automatically, it popped up the log in window. I was a bit surprised because it hasn't done that for a long time. I was more surprised, and a little perturbed, when my Username/password combination was rejected. I let all the other apps which I have set to auto-start settle down, and then, after l logged in to my email account, I found out why.
A message from Skype informed me that my account had been suspended because they had recently identified some unauthorized activity and, for my protection, they had temporarily suspended it. Oh, bummer!
Fortunately, a quick online chat with a customer service person restored my account again, and, in the process of chatting, I was informed that although they obviously could not identify the culprit, they did know that the intrusion originated in Egypt.
After access to my account had been restored, which involved changing my password, I logged in to find that the culprit had apparently depleted my balance by a pound, or so. although, to be honest, I could be wrong about that. I don't keep that close a check on it, but I certainly thought the balance was lower than it should be. However, if they made any calls, they don't show up in the history.
Oh well, these things happen. But of course it meant that I've spent a good part of my day running security scans on my PC (almost 4 hours for Windows Defender Offline to do a full scan), and then changing all my passwords, everywhere. The scan revealed my PC is clean, but man was it boring. Boring. Boring. Boring!
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The first track on my music player this morning (I had to wait to fix Skype until the morning's church run had been done) was Ashes, by KT Tunstall, which is one of those songs I like because it's a bit unusual, lyrics-wise, especially considering the style of the music. I'm not going to include it in this post, but you can listen on You Tube if the fancy takes you.
The reason I'm not including it is because a little later, Boogie Street by Leonard Cohen came on. It's from his Ten New Songs album with Sharon Robinson, and is one of many songs of his I like, including this one which has the immortal line, I was born like this, I had no choice, I was born with the gift of a golden voice. Yes, Leonard, it makes me smile that I have to agree.
Leonard_Cohen_-_Tower_Of_Song.mp3
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Tower Of Song is featured on several albums which are listed here.
