Cyberscammers Steal House via Email

That's kind of a scary prospect, isn't it, to have your house stolen and sold once your email was hacked? According to Slashdot, two Nigeria-based hackers managed to steal an Australian man's credentials, and sold two of his houses through his real estate agent, a total of about $500,000. The man rushed back home and just managed to prevent the sale of his second home from being finalized. The cash from the sales were funneled into Chinese bank accounts.
How did they manage to do this? That is an amazingly complex scam to pull off. If they managed to pull it off, what else can be hacked from some mundane thing of ours? A bank account, all funneled into China? Or perhaps all of your paychecks are now transferred to some odd account not yours? And this brings up the issue of security too. Just how secure do you now have to make everything?
Something to think about.

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes.

What is it with my quiz grades? Two 70s are not to be desired. Admittedly, I would have had a 90 on one if I had not misunderstood the question, but hypotheticals never do anyone any good, except in planning. It's interesting; I know my material. The material is not hard, by any standards. What I need to be wary of, and what screwed me over on these quizzes, are the types of dumb mistakes that make you so very angry in how so very avoidable they are.
Here's hoping I don't get those on the big test.

Reflection on the Week

Well, first off, I had a horrendous hacking cough all throughout the day on Wednesday, stayed home sick on Thursday, came back (still with coughing) on Friday to tough it out. So, all in all, not a good week for my health. However, that has nothing to do with CompSci, so here goes.
On the one day where I attended CompSci the previous week, we covered outputs and variables, I think (it feels like a long time ago). I think that the majority of what we're doing in CompSci is really easy and basic; I can do very well by simply copying what has already been written as an example. Interestingly enough, I do this a certain number of times, and I learn the material very well. At least, I know what it's used for, and I know the proper format for it.
Here's hoping I don't fall sick again this week. I already missed inputs (which I need to make up). I don't need to miss anything else.
Cheers.