The other day, my computer was hit by an attack. It was harmless because I had blocked it once before. The IP was again pathologically hitting port 500, trying to get in. It just kept hitting and hitting and hitting. Trying to get into my computer. Completely out of the blue. (Btw - this is not the attack I have had to go offline to deal with, for a few days).
So, I traced the IP to - yep - Schwan's Sales Enterprises, or some such name. But, it was Schwan's, the same people who run the refrigerated truck in town. Apparently, they have an internet spy division which just kinda dithers around trying to spy on everybody in the Midwest, hoping they will be businesses, or something...
(Disclaimer: Since many IP's can contain a number of different sites/etc., then it is not 100% possible to say that this was definitely Schwan's, but there is a probability that it was).
Well, I followed this further and found out that Schwan's is no stranger to spying. I guess it made some kind of boring business history by spying on DiGiorno's Pizza. Here's what I found...
Pizza-Gate: Corporate Spies: The Pizza Plot
Once again: Conspiracies are the odour of the day.
