haxx0red!

I'll be in NY the week of the 18th, so if anyone knows of anything exciting to do while I'm out there, let me know! I'll be coming back on Friday, so I'll only have nights, but I'll be getting out to the City at least a couple of times. =)

And to fuel the fire of Google paranoia, my Google account got hacked a few days ago! I had a sinking feeling when I couldn't log into my Gmail account, because my password didn't work. For future reference, make sure you're secondary security email account works, because that's how they reset your password... they send a link to your other account.

My other account was my work account, and not being overly concerned about not getting to my Gmail account, I decided to wait until I got to work to deal with it. I soon came to notice that I couldn't get into my Calendar... I had forgotten that was related to Google. Couldn't update my blog. Had no news reader. Oh well, annoyances... but I decided to be computer free for the rest of the weekend.

When I finally did get my password reset at work, everything seemed normal. Even the piece of "phishing" email that I got asking me to confirm something-or-other that I had supposedly purchased. But it wasn't a fake, and I didn't realize it until a couple of days later.

What I didn't realize was that I had bought something using the new Google Checkout feature that some smaller online stores are using a couple of months back. Someone actually bought a computer through my Google account!

Luckily, they never received confirmation because I got my account back in time, so they cancelled the order without me having to do a thing, but it's a little scary having all those services tied to a single account.