Hacking Email and Countermeasures

How to hack a Yahoo account? this is the most frequent question asked by many people in chat rooms and forums. You are reading this because most probably you are interested on hacking Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or any password other password. Here are two easy way of hacking email accounts.

Ways to easily hack an Email:

Using a keylogger

There are two easy and possible ways to hack an email that is if you have access to your victims unprotected computer. If you have physical access to your victims computer then that is the most easiest way of of acquiring his account or accounts. This can be done by using a keylogger.

What is a keylogger? A keylogger is a program that monitors each keystrokes a user types on a specific computer keyboard.

Just like any other programs keyloggers must be first installed. Keyloggers asks you for a secret password and a hot key to enable it. This is because after you install keylogger it runs on the background and completely hidden adn your victim will never identify it.

If you don’t want to be a victim of keyloggers read on this How to avoid Keyloggers.

How can I get the password from it? you just need to open the keylogger program using your assigned hotkeys which is usually set during installation and entering your password. It will now show the logs containing every keytrokes made by your victim.

Using Phishing

Phishing or Fake Login is a technique of hackers I like to call them crooks , it is a method of crooks on getting valuable information on it’s victim that are usually private information or financial records.

This is a common trick to sniff password. It is now a widely used way of hacking email account. A Fake Login page is a page that appears exactly as a Login page but will only re-direct you to a false website they use to gather informations.

If you don’t wan’t to get Phished read on this How to avoid being Phished.

Countermeasures:

Here are some tips to prevent being hack

1. Never access your email account from the sites other than the original site.

2. It is always recommended to always type the URL of the site in the address bar to enter the site. I don’t advice clicking on the hyperlink to enter the site.

3. Install a very good  and reliable Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewall software on your PC and it is very important to update it regularly.

4. Don’t ever respond to emails that ask you to update your account information. These emails provides  you with a link to their fake login page and will ask you to login using your username and password.

I am not encouraging people to hack an account on this post. I just want to show the most common ways of those crooks use to hack an account and for you to be aware on this kind of crime and help you secure and protect your valuable accounts.

Know the crook’s way and you will be safe.

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