Can your hotmail or yahoo account be hacked? For tens of thousands of people around the world this nightmare has already happened. So yes your hotmail/yahoo account can be hacked into. Just because you have not lost control of your online email account, such as hotmail/yahoo, does not mean it has not been accessed without your permission. Because you have no way of knowing this.
8000 people in the UK found out in late Oct 2006 from a knock on the door from the Police that FBI in America had recovered their private files and data from a raid on a hackers den. The primary means of this loss of files/data by these unaware 8000 UK victims was through the use of hotmail/yahoo instant messengers and their email accounts attached to those messenger services. Therefore, if your hotmail/yahoo account has not been hacked does not mean it has not been accessed without your knowledge. The chances are your email account has been accessed and its email read, just the hacker was kind enough ( or for another reason ) not to change the password to lock you out. One reason why your hacker might have chosen not to change your account password is because that would be the equal of killing the hen that lays the golden eggs. By locking you out, also means that further flow of your personal and confidential information to the hacker will cease once your locked out. The hacker could also be your spouse, girl/boy friend, work colleague or boss. Why would any of them lock you out of your account when they are happy to keep an eye on everything you do ( able to read every email you receive and send).
We use hotmail/yahoo examples since these two services are used by millions of peoples around the World, however techniques used to hack hotmail/yahoo work just as well on other online email services as well as other online accounts. In some cases these techniques work much better on other email services because hotmail/yahoo victims and security experts have nudged improvements in the security of these two services. We can describe to you popular methods/techniques you can fall victim too and lose complete control of your hotmail/yahoo or other email/online accounts or have them accessed unauthorised without your knowledge. Therefore, if you have not already tasted the bitter pill of loss of your hotmail/yahoo or other online accounts we can place you in much better position to avoid it ever happening to you.
I do not endorse you using the information to hack other people's online email accounts. It is lawful for you to read this information to protect yourself. By knowing the tools and techniques you will be better placed to secure your own online communications, and the written explanation does give guidance on how to firm up your own defences. Our sole aim is to stop you from sleep walking into hacker traps and losing your confidential information, like 8000 other Brits did in late 2006.
Yahoo!/ Hotmail Password Hacking
Password Recovery/ Resetting/ Auditing
Ever curious how professionals and Hackers alike recover/crack/audit Passwords.? We can tell you how and what software they use and sources from the net where you can get it for free. This information will transform your outlook on the use of passwords for data protection in daily use. For example an eight letter alphanumeric password such as "spade938" takes only on average 3.7 seconds to crack. No unlawful activity is involved at any stage of learning to recover/audit/crack passwords.
What is password recovery/ cracking/ resetting/ auditing?
Password Cracking/Recovery: where a person has forgotten or lost his/password, software is used to automate the process of guessing the right "password".
Password Resetting - Where it is not necessary to recover the original forgotten/lost password, a person can chose to have the system disable the original password and ask for the new password to be set. This is what most commercially available Window's Administrator password resetting disks do.
Password Auditing. Auditing is checking the security of the password system (a computer network ) by running automated password guessing software. Essentially the software will reveal passwords in order of password strength. Password auditing is done with the same software used in cracking/recovery.
Password Cracking/ Recovering: the process starts with getting the password hashes. It is from password hashes that the password is recovered/cracked. What is a password hash?. Essentially password hash is 32 byte encrypted form of the password, stored by the system. When you set the password, the system takes your password and runs it through encryption algorithm to produce password hash which is then stored. Password recovery/cracking software essentially duplicates the original encryption process at lightening fast speed until it produces password hash that is identical to the password hash under examination for cracking/recovery. On a home computer up to 10 million tries per minute can be made to crack/recover a password. There are four automated password cracking/recovery techniques;
1.Dictionary attack: Password cracking software will run the entire dictionary through the password encryption algorithm to get the hashes to compare to the hashes of the "unknown" password. If the person has selected any word or slang found in the dictionary, it is not going to take an average home computer more than 10 minutes to crack/recover it. This is the thus the quickest of all techniques.
2.Hybrid attack: deals with passwords which are essentially words with numerals/symbols attached to either end of them i.e. hybrid of word and numbers, e.g. clever88, foolish01, pa$$word, 5ecurity etc. This too does not take more than 10 minutes or so to run through.
3.Brute force attack: if the password survived above two techniques, it will not survive the third i.e. brute force. Brute force will crack any password, if allowed sufficient time and computing power. Brute force essentially takes one character of the password at a time until it gets the whole password.
4.Brute force with precomputed hashes: As mentioned before, password cracking/recovery the software generates hashes to compare to the hashes of the unknown password. If you get the software to generate hashes in advance and then store them, you can make brute force technique lightening fast. For example an eight letter alphanumeric password such as "spade938" takes only on average 3.7 seconds to crack when subjected to brute force with precomputed hashes.
