Is there anyway people can hack gmail , hotmail or other mail services easily?
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Is there anyway people can hack gmail , hotmail or other mail services easily?
Most sites, failbook, snotmail, etc.....have a password recovery system. If you know the person at a "stalking" level you would be able to compromise their accounts.
"Come witness the failure in the system!!".
I would say no, not these days. If you look at people who claim to have had their accounts "hacked" it wasn't really hacking as such, more like stupidity on their part (Sara Palin anyone? :D)
bludgeon has mentioned one of the most common exploits to "compromise" an e-mail account. Always lie when filling in the password recovery data ;)
Others are:
1. Lack of physical security............never store login credentials where your kid brother can access your machine.:eek:
2. Always logout properly, and clear the internet cache if you are using a machine to which others have access. You don't want to leave an open session for someone else do you?
3. Watch out for insecure public hotspots, your traffic might be sniffed.
I would only rate #3 as close to hacking, and it is probably the least likely.
Social engineering is quite common. Many people use the same password for everything.
Discover one for an unimportant account and gain access to all of that person's other accounts.
Yes social enginuity...like starting an sms convo for the sole purpose of obtaining a victims IP addie.
:D
Yahoo still has a few web APIs that allow for account brute forcing.
That I find surprising in this day and age, as it isn't that difficult to implement a three strike rule.Quote:
Yahoo still has a few web APIs that allow for account brute forcing.
I suppose the mitigation is that each trial takes so long that a brute force attack against a reasonably long and strong password would be far too time consuming?
Yes, and it is mostly due to user error. One would use the same password for everything, and would let friends log into their computers.
I would suggest a simple pattern of ten characters long or more consisting of two lower case letters, two upper case letters, two numbers, and two special characters. Something like this: 8p-mt+hXZT, and also change it occasionally, maybe every six months.
I have 39 passwords, a different one for each website I visit, which I change frequently as 6 months, but it depends on the information for the specific site.
I save the passwords on a .odt file which requires a password, and I keep that in an encrypted directory. Paranoid maybe, but I know it is safer than many.
Edit: Were you asking how to hack, or just asking in general of the security of the email websites?
Each webmail provider does not offer encrypted sessions. What they do is encrypt the authentication process that sends the password. After that, everything is sent in clear. Gmail is the only free email provider I know of that offers encryption of the entire session as an option. That consumes the resources of Google and the user so the user is allowed to choose.
Hello guys,
I need help from someone to help me get the password of the e-mail from my girlfriend. We are engaged but I think she is having an affair. Please help me.
Thanks
I'll ask her as soon as she gets out of the shower. ;)
Just guess her secret Question / Answer to reset her password.
what web browser does she use? If it's Firefox then go into options and under the security tab, click the saved passwords and then click the show passord, then it will show a plaintext login for e-mail.
you can do the same within Chrome also.
Well that is if she doesn't delete that sort of stuff once she finishes her web session.
Just take in mind that if you do password reset's etc then she will know you have been a naughty boy and snooping on her.
If there's no trust and your such a paranoid little boy that your women is talking to another male so ooohhh noes she must be doing the naughty then maybe you should not be getting married, as you carn't be in a relationship if there's no trust.
Or maybe just ask her straight out if she's sucking some dude's candy cane?
It's apparently normal to have doubts / cold feet right before getting Married, so some of this could be normal, but either way, if she is, then run while you still can, and if not, and you're being a little **** about it, and she's Faithful, then you better get DAMN good at playing tuna fish with your Tongue because she's gonna own your balls like like a rooted server.
Now that im thinking about it, who would use email to communicate with the person they are cheating with? Wouldn't texting, or even just calling that person work better than email?
I would agree with this quote. :DQuote:
Hacking Hotmail is like stealing a 1978 Ford Fiesta. Sure, you can do it. But nobody really cares.
~ mirrorshades
That is a very good point...............people just don't use e-mail like they used to......smart phones have taken over. :)Quote:
Now that i'm thinking about it, who would use email to communicate with the person they are cheating with?
I still prefer Email. I know it's "archaic" compared to today's world of IMs, Web Based IMs built into Facebook, and phones now having real actual IM clients, but I don't care.
You'd be amazed. I have seen people get caught by leaving their e-mail open while their partner is around. I have heard of one guy sending an e-mail to his mistress asking her to marry him. As far as he knew his GF trusted him and wouldnt look at his e-mails. You can guess how that went ........!
To answer the OP if you dont trust the person dont get married but if you want to be with them and you get caught spying and they turn out to be faithfull you are putting everything at risk.
Wow..... I can't even imagine someone thinking they could get away with that over an email.... I'm now Married, and have been since 2007, which, is a shock to me, because I was pretty sure I'd die alone. But, now I'm Married to a Girl who Loves me, knows Unix, Assembler, and more about hardware than I do, and we can go from listening to Lords of Acid to Berurier Noir to Johnny Cash and Cannibal Corpse and BILE, and like it. And, watching Horror Movies.
It's amazing to think that all along, there was a girl in Quebec who was a Female version of me. I find that amazing.... Oh, and, my Wife, LOVES BOFH....
And She hates VMS! She's Perfect! One day we were talking about Unix, and She said how She Loved Vi, and asked about me, and if I used that or Emacs, and I basically was like "Marry me!" LOL. I mean come on, a Girl who likes Horror Movies, Punk Rock, Techno, Industrial, Metal, Unix, hates VMS, hates Gentoo, likes SUSE and Slackware and Sun, and all of that rolled into one... Of course I had to ask Her to Marry me.
I still remember it too; It was Christmas Morning 2006, and I got down on one knee, and at the exact moment I was about to pop the question, She, in sync with me, said the same thing....
We Proposed to each other at the same time... Then we both said Yes at the same time.... It was great. We talked about it too, because I was asking about that day, and when I said it was kind of cool how we both Proposed to each other at the same time, She said to me that She had been thinking about it quite a bit for like a while, but didn't know how to go about it.
Not really supporting your cause, but cheating gfs isn't i support either. So i'd say if shes logged into the laptop and the password is saved, i know firefox shows the password. And if you can't figure out how to locate that, if it auto fills her password go to the page, and put this in the url bar: (and then watch the screen)
Also best of luck, i hope she isn't cheating and you're just wrong. In which case you should talk to her and ask her if you're feeling like she is. Be strait up and honest with her. If shes a bitch about it, then its not worth it. If she cares about you she will feel bad that she made you feel like that. But if she is cheating sorry to hear about that bro.
@Gore, I'm pretty lucky with my wife, though we have no common interests related to computers and she dances. And i can't dance to save my life, we have other common interests. And she likes to learn about the things i like, and if i explain them to her she understands them and loves hearing about stuff that im doing. Just the same as she teaches me dance stuff, and loves doing it because she knows im interested in her interests.
My main interests are Computers, Phones, Horror Movies, and in music; Horror Punk, Punk, Techno, Metal, Rock (Like The Doors) Industrial, a lot of Neue Deutsche Haerte (The new German Hardness. Think Industrial with Guitar base), Tanz Metal (Dance Metal. A mix of Techno / Electronic, with Guitars) Rock-A-Billy, Psychobilly, and Johnny Cash. My Wife likes all of that too, and got me into more Ska and Reggae (which I already liked, I just didn't have any unless you count Leftover Crack, which is a band that does a mix of Ska and Reggae, Punk, and Metal) but we also have our own interests too.
My Wife likes stuff from England, I don't. My Wife speaks English as a second language, as Her native is French. My native is some German and English, and I put it together, because even though English is my native language, I grew up in a house where not everyone always spoke English, so I knew some German from when I was little, and got better at it later on. My Great Grandmother barely spoke English, so, I had to learn some German.
Even in Computers, my Wife and I will both agree and disagree depending on topic; My Wife LOVES ATI and AMD, where I don't like ATI, and I LOVE Nvidia, and I like Intel over AMD.
When it comes to Unix Workstations and Servers, my Wife is into Sun, where I like SGI more. SGI is my dream machine. I'd LOVE to have an SGI, and my Wife, would LOVE to have a Sun.
Even though Oracle is currently screwing Sun up badly, I liked Suns too, so that sucks, but, again, I'm a HUGE Lover of SGI. My dream Workstation, is an SGI with IRIX. My Wife's would be a Sun with either SunOS or Solaris. We both respect both though.
And, also, I like Alphas. An Alpha Workstation with Tru64 for me, would be awesome.
When it comes down to other stuff, I'm more into Security than My Wife is, and I also have slightly stronger OS skills in general; My Wife is capable on both Unix and Windows, but I have slightly more in the way of being slightly more skillful in different types of Unix, and, also, BeOS, other OSs, and so on.
My Wife on the other hand, has WAY more skill in Hardware, Programming, and setting up Servers. It's kind of cool to me that our skill sets complement each others:
She can put the Computer together, I can install the OS, She can set up the Servers on it, I can lock them down. It works well I think heh.
That does make sense given that they are now the same company?Quote:
My Wife LOVES ATI and AMD
Intel make some good stuff but they don't match AMD on price/performance for average users' requirements. These days I really only look at them for specialist applications.
I have pretty much an even spread of NVIDIA/ATI cards and there really isn't that much to choose between them from an end user viewpoint. From what I have seen of onboard video (I am not a fan) the ATI chipset seems to give a better performance than its NVIDIA counterpart. Having said that, I wouldn't mix them so if the board has one or the other then I use that make for the independent card.
It's a bit like MoBos................you can get some excellent stuff from Asus, and some real junk that competes with PCChips and ECS. I built one a few weeks ago. SATA III and USB3.............the Gigabyte board I used cost £80, whilst the Asus equivalent was just short of £150.
I guess that hardware has way outstripped software in the past few years such that although the specs might look great on paper............only your bank manager will see the real difference? :D
The discussion is top notch...I would not live knowing that my Job South Africa email was hacked.
I don't like to use Hotmail anymore, or Yahoo. Gotta be Gmail
Ya, it's possible in some cases. through phishing pages and more ways. I already face this issue on my Travel Blog which is Based on Colosseum Underground Tour, i also have 5 websites. After facing this issue instantly I change my hosting server
What are the most secure emails now? Or can hackers hack anything?
ProtonMail, Tutanota, and CounterMail are good. More info here: Secure email providers to protect your privacy in 2021
There are secure services, of course. But a lot depends on how you use it. Because good hackers can hack anything they want. For example, you can check it yourself on the http://wtj5psom5zufu4yo.onion forum on the darknet.
But I even found services to hack such mailboxes.
Dear Forum,
can anyone provide me an activation code to sign up to Countermail? You know this is mandatory.
Thank you very much.