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PREVENT EMAIL FROM HACKING
By: eba95 Date: August 5, 2010, 8:39 am
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accounts?
The answer is very simple. They
don ’t know how to protect
themselves from being hacked! In
fact most of the people who lose
their email accounts are not the
victims of hacking but the victims of
Trapping. They lose their passwords
not because they are hacked by
some expert hackers but they are
fooled to such an extent that they
themselves give away their
password.
Are you confused? If so continue
reading and you ’ll come to know…
Now I’ll mention some of the most
commonly used online scams which
fool people and make them lose
their passwords. I ’ll also mention
how to protect your email
account from these scams.
1. WEBSITE SPOOFING
Website spoofing is the act of
creating a website, with the
intention of misleading the readers.
The website will be created by a
different person or organisation
(Other than the original) especially
for the purposes of cheating.
Normally, the website will adopt the
design of the target website and
sometimes has a similar URL.
For example a Spoofed Website of
Yahoo.com appears exactly same as
Yahoo Website. So most of the
people believe that it is the original
site and lose their passwords. The
main intention of spoofed websites
is to fool users and take away their
passwords. For this,the spoofed sites
offer fake login pages. These fake
login pages resemble the original
login pages of sites like
Yahoo,Gmail,Orkut etc. Since it
resemble ’s the original login page
people beleive that it is true and
give away their username and
passwords by trying to login to their
accounts.
Solution:
Never try to login/access your email
account from the sites other than the
original site.
Always type the URL of the site in the
address bar to get into the site.
Never click on the hyperlink to enter
the site.
2. BY USING KEYLOGGERS
The other commonly used method
to steal password is by using a
Keylogger. A Keylogger is nothing
but a spyware. The detailed
description of keylogger and it’s
usage is discussed in the post
Hacking an email account. If you
read this post you’ll come to know
that it is too easy to steal the
password using a keylogger
program. If you just access your
email account from a computer
installed with keylogger, you
definitely lose your password. This is
because the keylogger records each
and every keystroke that you type.
Solution:
Protecting yourselves from a
keylogger scam is very easy.Just
install a good anti-spyware program
and update it regularly. This keeps
your PC secure from a keylogger.
Also there is a program called Anti-
keylogger which is specially
designed to detect and remove
keyloggers. You can use this
program to detect some stealth
keyloggers which remain
undetected by many anti-spyware
programs.
3. ACCESSING YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT
FROM CYBER CAFES
Do you access your email from cyber
cafes? Then definitely you are under
the risk of loosing your password.In
fact many people lose their email
account in cyber cafes. For the owner
of the cyber cafe it ’s just a cakewalk
to steal your password. For this he
just need ’s to install a keylogger on
his computers. So when you login to
your email account from this PC, you
give away your password to the cafe
owner. Also there are many Remote
Administration Tools (RATs) which
can be used to monitor your
browsing activities in real time.
This doesn’t mean that you should
never use cyber cafes for browsing
the internet. I know, not all the cyber
cafe owners will be so wicked but it
is recommended not to use cafes for
accessing confidential information. If
it comes to the matter of security
never trust anyone, not even your
friend. I always use my own PC to
login to my accounts to ensure
safety.
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