Friday, February 4, 2011


5 Ways to Hack Email account passwords

                       

"How to hack email accounts passwords?" So many people have asked that question, and honestly its a dumb one.There are many ways to hack an email account passwords but i am covering here 5 of them:

1. Phishing
2. Brute Forcing
3. Keyloggers
4. Social engineering
5. Guessing the secret question

Phishing:

This is the most easiest way to hack an email account password. Phishing is a way of creating a fake login page. Let’s say if you have created a hotmail phishing page.The page should look exactly like the real one but if someone logins through that page their password will be hacked
 
How does it work:


You can download and make a replica of the website you want to phish and save it as HTML. When you’re done with that,you have to find a free web hosting website
to upload the HTML. When you have successfully uploaded the html. Just send the link to your victim and if the victim types his/her username and password their password will get hacked and you will get the password in your web hosting account. And there you have it,that’s Phishing.

Brute Forcing
  
Brute Forcing is like guessing the password but instead you can download a password list [a long txt file containing words that might be the password] and the Brute Forcer tries them all.

Keyloggers

A keylogger sometimes called a spying software is a small program which is used to monitor a local or a Remote PC, Keyloggers now a days are so easy to use that a person with even a basic knowledge of computers can use keylogger. Once a keylogger is installed in your computer it can monitor each and every keystroke typed on your computer, thus you can see how dangerous a keylogger can be.

Social engineering:

Social engineering is defined as the process of obtaining others passwords or personal information by the act of manipulating people rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques.


Guessing The Secret Question

If you know your friends,this will be an easy task. Go to http://www.hotmail.com and click forgot password, then put in the email address and then the CAPTCHA code, Answer the secret question, but beware because you have like 3 tries only.

Warning:This post "How to Hack email accounts" is is truly for educational purposes

About The Author

This post is written by Rafay Baloch. He writes related to ethical hacking and security tips and tricks at his website http://rafayhackingarticles.net



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