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Email hacking

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is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner.
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which ask for verification of personal information, such as an account number, a password, or a date of birth. If unsuspecting victims respond, the result may be stolen accounts, financial loss, or identity theft.
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is used - where mail servers negotiate for each email connection whether it will be encrypted, and to what standard. Where a mail flow between servers is not encrypted, it could be intercepted by an
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Although companies may secure its internal networks, vulnerabilities can also occur through home networking. Email may be protected by methods, such as, creating a
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On some email platforms, it may also allow them to set up automated email processing rules. All of these could be very harmful for the legitimate user.
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can be sent via email, and if executed may be able to capture the user's password and send it to an attacker.
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Alex Kosachev; Hamid R. Nemati (2009). "Chronicle of a journey: an e-mail bounce back system".
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Maxwell T. Boykoff (2011), "The UEA CRU email hacking scandal (a.k.a. 'Climategate')",
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is the unauthorized access to, or manipulation of, an account or email correspondence.
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Unauthorized access to, or manipulation of, an email account or email correspondence
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hack, over 170,000 pieces of email between top executives ended up on Wikileaks.
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has been hacked in order to find embarrassing or incriminating correspondence.
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and similar issues which facilitate phishing are addressed by the 'stack' of
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Phishing involves emails that appear to be from legitimate sender but are
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If passwords are leaked or otherwise become known to an attacker, having
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warning military personnel not to use email accounts with weak security.
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Joel Scambray; Stuart McClure; George Kurtz (2001), "Email Hacking",
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Nitesh Dhanjani; Billy Rios; Brett Hardin (2009), "Abusing SMTP",
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Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance
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R. Thilagaraj; G Deepak Raj Rao (2011), "Email hacking",
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Charles P. Pfleeger; Shari Lawrence Pfleeger (2011),
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were leaked to create the scandal popularly known as
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or government agency and the contents can be read by
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journalists hacked email accounts for their stories.
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Index


OPSEC
Email
hacker
Computer virus
virus
malware
Phishing
scams
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Opportunistic TLS
ISP
passive monitoring
Email spoofing
Sender Policy Framework
DomainKeys Identified Mail
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance
Authenticated Received Chain
firewalls
anti-virus software
intrusion detection systems
audit
Certified Ethical Hacker
pen test
strong password
digital signature
two-factor authentication
Climatic Research Unit
Climategate
News of the World

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