Email Hacking and Countermeasures

The most frequent questions asked by many peopleinstalling, it asks you for a secret password and a hot
especially in a chat room is How to  Hack Yahoo,key to enable it.This is because after installing the
Gmail or any other Password .So you as the readerkeylogger program is completely hidden and the victim
are most likely reading this because you wantcan no way identify it.
to hack into some body’s email account.Here areOnce installed how to get password from it?
some of the tricks that can be used toThe hacker can open the keylogger program by just
track password of a person’s email account.pressing the hot keys(which is set during installation)
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFOREand enter the password.Now it shows the logs
PROCEEDINGcontaining every keystroke of the user, where it was
There is no program that will hack the passwordpressed, at what time, including screenshots of the
of one’s account.There exist many programsactivities.
which claims hack an email account,but unfortunatelyIF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM’S
people using these kind of programs will only end up inCOMPUTER
frustration.None of these programs will hack anThe other most commonly used trick to sniff
account, since services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc. havepassword is using Fake Login Pages (Phishing).Today,
it set so that it will lock you from that account after aFake login pages are the most widely used techniques
certain number of login attempts.to hack an email account.A Fake Login page is a page
TWO EASY WAYS TO HACK AN EMAIL IF YOUthat appears exactly as a Login page but once we
HAVE ACCESS TO VICTIM’S COMPUTERenter our password there ,we end up loosing it.
If you have physical access to victim’s computerCOUNTERMEASURES
then it’s definitely possible to hack his/her1. Never try to login/access your email account from
account.This can easily be done by just installing athe sites other than the original site.
keylogger.2. Always type the URL of the site in the address bar
What is a keylogger?to get into the site.Never click on the hyperlink to enter
A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, keythe site.
logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or3. Install a good Antivirus/Antispyware software on
small program that monitors each keystroke a useryour PC and update it regularly.
types on a specific computer’s keyboard.4. Never respond to the emails that ask you to update
How to install it?your account information. These emails provide you
You can install these keyloggers just as any otherwith a link to the login page (fake) and ask you to login
program but these things you must keep in mind.Whileusing your username and password.