Email Hacking and Countermeasures By Srikanth R At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

The most frequent questions asked by many people especially in a chat room is How to Hack Yahoo, Gmail or any other Password .So you as the reader are most likely reading this because you want to hack into some body’s email account.Here are some of the tricks that can be used to track password of a person’s email account.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE PROCEEDING

There is no program that will hack the password of one’s account.There exist many programs which claims hack an email account,but unfortunately people using these kind of programs will only end up in frustration.None of these programs will hack an account, since services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc. have it set so that it will lock you from that account after a certain number of login attempts.

TWO EASY WAYS TO HACK AN EMAIL IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM’S COMPUTER

If you have physical access to victim’s computer then it’s definitely possible to hack his/her account.This can easily be done by just installing a keylogger.

What is a keylogger?

A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke a user types on a specific computer’s keyboard.

How to install it?

You can install these keyloggers just as any other program but these things you must keep in mind.While installing, it asks you for a secret password and a hot key to enable it.This is because after installing the keylogger program is completely hidden and the victim can no way identify it.

Once installed how to get password from it?

The hacker can open the keylogger program by just pressing the hot keys(which is set during installation) and enter the password.Now it shows the logs containing every keystroke of the user, where it was pressed, at what time, including screenshots of the activities.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM’S COMPUTER

The other most commonly used trick to sniff password is using Fake Login Pages (Phishing).
Today, Fake login pages are the most widely used techniques to hack an email account.A Fake Login page is a page that appears exactly as a Login page but once we enter our password there ,we end up loosing it.

COUNTERMEASURES

• 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.

• Install a good Antivirus/Antispyware software on your PC and update it regularly.

• Never respond to the emails that ask you to update your account information.

These emails provide you with a link to the login page (fake) and ask you to login using your username and password.Report your Email service provider about these fraudulent emails

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