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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 lists
that expand to that many users). Email spamming can be made worse if recipients reply to the Email, causing all
the original addressees to receive the reply. It may also occur innocently, as a result of sending a message to
mailing 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 to
compromise the Email server like Yahoo, Gmail, etc.
Email Password Hacking can be accomplished via some of the Client Side Attacks. We try to compromise the user
and 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 'Phishing
attack'.
Phishing
The act of sending an Email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to
scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.
The Email directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as
passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already
has. The Web site, however, is Bogus and set up only to steal the User’s information.
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