Author: Ankit Fadia
Publisher: Vikas Publishing
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 101
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125918132
Description
Hacking e-mail accounts, stealing sensitive data, copying the address book, intercepting data, virus infections, password attacks, spoofed messages, abusive e-mails, Trojan attacks and espionage are some of the many concerns that have started affecting e-mail users worldwide. E-mails are also commonly being exploited by computer criminals to execute privacy and identity attacks on unsuspecting victims.
What would you do if somebody broke into your e-mail account and stole all your sensitive data? What would you do if somebody spoofed your identity and sent e-mails from your account? What would you do id somebody spoofed your identity and set e-mails from your account? Someone broke into your e-mail account and used it to transfer funds out of your bank account?
Your e-mail account has become more dangerous than anyone ever imagined! Deriving data from actual research experiments, code analysis, case studies and consumer study, this book will open the reader’s eyes to security threats, secrets and loopholes that until now were unnoticed.
E-mail Hacking can help you have harmless fun with friends and family. It will also help you guard against malicious crackers. Handle with care and happy hacking!
ANKIT FADIA is a widely recognized, twenty-year old independent compute security internationally best-selling books on numerous topics related to computer security that have been widely appreciated by both professionals and industry leaders the world over. Widely traveled, Fadia provides customized cyber security training and consulting solutions to an impressive list of clients all across North America, Asia, Australia, and he Middle East. Fedia also handles the Asia operations of a classified intelligence agency.
In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden’s men. Recently Fadia started his won computer security consulting, training and publishing company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with operations all across the Asia Pacific region. For his outstanding contributions in the field of computer security globally, Fadia has been honoured with numerous international awards and is also regularly invited by BBC Radio World News, London, UK, to share the latest updates on computer security.
Contents
Tracing E-Mails
E-Mail Forging
Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ESMTP)
The Post Office Protocol (POP)
SPAM
Cracking E-Mail Accounts
Securing E-Mail
Countermeasures