** An Email Account from being Hacked!!
How to Protect an Email Account from being Hacked.
22 replies
Today in this post I ll teach you how to protect your email account from being hacked. Nowadays I get a
lot of emails where most
of the people say My
Email account is hacked
please help . Now one
question which arises in
our mind is: Is it so easy
to hack an email
account? OR Is it so
difficult to protect an
email account from being
hacked ?. The single
answer to these two
questions is Absolutely
NOT!. It is neither easy to
hack an email nor difficult
to protect an email
account from bieng
hacked.
If this is the case, then
what is the reason for
many people to loose
their accounts?
The answer is very simple.
They don t know how to
protect themselves from
being hacked! In fact most
of the people who loose
their email accounts are
not the victims of hacking
but the victims of
Trapping. They loose
their passwords not
because they are hacked
by some expert hackers
but they are fooled to
such an extent that they
themselves give away their
password.
1. WEBSITE SPOOFING
Website spoofing is the
act of creating a website,
with the intention of
misleading the readers.
The website will be
created by a different
person or organisation
(Other than the
original)especially for the
purposes of cheating.
Normally, the website will
adopt the design of the
target website and
sometimes has a similar
URL.
For example a Spoofed
Website of Yahoo.com
appears exactly same as
Yahoo Website. So most
of the people believe that
it is the original site and
loose their passwords. The
main intention of spoofed
websites is to fool users
and take away their
passwords. For this,the
spoofed sites offer fake
login pages. These fake
login pages resemble the
original login pages of
sites like
Yahoo,Gmail,Orkut etc.
Since it resemble s the
original login page people
beleive that it is true and
give away their username
and passwords by trying
to login to their accounts.
2. BY USING KEYLOGGERS
The other commonly used method to steal password
is by using a Keylogger. A
Keylogger is nothing but a
spyware. If you just
access your email account
from a computer installed
with keylogger, you
definitely loose your
password. This is because
the keylogger records
each and every keystroke
that you type.
Solution:
Protecting yourselves from
a keylogger scam is very
easy.Just install a good
anti-spyware program and
update it regularly. This
keeps your PC secure
from a keylogger. Also
there is a program called
Anti-keylogger which is
specially designed to
detect and remove
keyloggers. You can use
this program to detect
some stealth keyloggers
which remain undetected
by many anti-spyware
programs.
3. ACCESSING YOUR
EMAIL ACCOUNT FROM
CYBER CAFES
Do you access your email
from cyber cafes? Then
definitely you are under
the risk of loosing your
password.In fact many
people loose their email
account in cyber cafes.
For the owner of the
cyber cafe it s just a
cakewalk to steal your
password. For this he just
need s to install a
keylogger on his
computers. So when you
login to your email
account from this PC, you
give away your password
to the cafe owner. Also
there are many Remote
Administration Tools
(RATs) which can be used
to monitor your browsing
activities in real time.
This doesnt mean that
you should never use
cyber cafes for browsing
the internet. I know, not
all the cyber cafe owners
will be so wicked but it is
recommended not to use
cafes for accessing
confidential information.
If it comes to the matter
of security never trust
anyone, not even your
friend. I always use my
own PC to login to my
accounts to ensure safety.
for sharing..The third is very useful to me
