Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

Email Spamming

 Email Spamming is a variant of Bombing; it refers to sending Email to hundreds or thousands of users (or to liststhat expand to that many users). Email spamming can be made worse if recipients reply to the Email, causing allthe original addressees to receive the reply. It may also occur innocently, as a result of sending a message tomailing lists and not realizing that the list explodes to thousands of users, or as a result of a responder message(such as vacation(1)) that is setup incorrectly.

Email Password Hacking

 There is no specified attack available just to hack the password of Email accounts. Also, it is not so easy tocompromise the Email server like Yahoo, Gmail, etc.

 Email Password Hacking can be accomplished via some of the Client Side Attacks. We try compromise the userand get the password of the Email account before it reaches the desired Email server.

 We will cover many attacks by the workshop flows, but at this time we will talk about the very famous 'Phishingattack'.

Phishing

 The act of sending an Email to a user falsely claiming to established legitimate enterprise in an attempt toscam the user into surrendering private information that used for identity theft.

 The Email directs the user to visit a Web site where they to update personal information, such aspasswords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization alreadyhas. The Web site, however, is Bogus and set up only to steal the User’s information.

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