OT: How can someone hack your yahoo email?

FalseDmitri · Jan 3, 2007

i know this is off topic, but I want to know, its important.

how can someone hack into your yahoo email account?

Somehow, someone has gotten into mine again. I know they didn't get my password from phishing.

We use quicktime and i heard on myspace there is a vulnerability in it....

any ideas????

Highdaddy · Jan 3, 2007

could it be somebody you know, who has access to your computer?

FalseDmitri · Jan 3, 2007

someone i know, but there's no way they would know my password.

are there ways to bypass yahoo's security?

quantumleap · Jan 3, 2007

False Dmitri said:
i know this is off topic, but I want to know, its important.

how can someone hack into your yahoo email account?

Somehow, someone has gotten into mine again. I know they didn't get my password from phishing.

We use quicktime and i heard on myspace there is a vulnerability in it....

any ideas????

myspace has a download for the Quicktime security vulnerability.

Dr.Pepper · Jan 3, 2007

If you have the same password on myspace and yahoo that's a likely connection. Especially if you have that yahoo account attached to that myspace account.

Lastly - change your PW often, maybe week to week - log out completely when you are finished - and if you are scared of the yahoo/myspace connection - create a new account solely for your myspace login. This way you have no connection/affiliation with your myspace and personal email.

There is no "hack" other than fishing passwords via myspace's security problems and/or guessing passwords.

If your password is "fred" then you've got to rexamine what kind of passwords are needed to provide full protection.

FalseDmitri · Jan 3, 2007

my password was in a transliterated foreign language and was followed by numbers. I know I didn't get hacked thru a phishing site, it must have been thru myspace.

I've changed my password and stuff...just trying to figure out how they got into it. I'm so pissed off, if there were a way I could prove it.....

DonMelchor · Jan 3, 2007

tell your ex to fuvk off and that's it!!! and if she does it again you'll ask for a restraining order and cal the police

:realtongu

FalseDmitri · Jan 3, 2007

it wasn't my ex, but I'm seriously pissed

ProPokerPlayer · Jan 3, 2007

You go to lost my password and put in your screen name.it asks you for your security Q?.....Anybody knows the answer to that is in. If you dont know the answer you cancel, get the person on IM, get a conversation going and somewhere in there you ask them their own security Q?.......its like dogs name or grandmas name or city u were born so most times they dont think twice about answering......

TTinCO · Jan 3, 2007

You could also have a virus\keylogger

primetime21+ · Jan 3, 2007

It could be a keylogger. I would get snoopfree from download.com. Its free and it prevents keyloggers. And obviously all the anti-virus and spyware protection you can get.

Megacapper · Jan 3, 2007

Password hurler

AdamSelene · Jan 3, 2007

Most webmail systems are vulnerable to script attacks. I've seen very few I couldn't exploit, although I haven't looked at Yahoo!. TheRX Forum is very easy to exploit BTW. Don't reuse passwords, I recommend using a password generator that creates strong passwords by hashing a secret against the domain URL. e.g. http://passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html

Woody0 · Jan 3, 2007

Adam,

If you have a password generator and enter passwords by Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V does that defeat key loggers?

AdamSelene · Jan 4, 2007

Woody0 said:
Adam,

If you have a password generator and enter passwords by Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V does that defeat key loggers?

No, not necessarily, if a program is hooked up to log keystrokes, it could also easily capture clipboard information.

If a system is compromised, there's nothing the program can't do. It need not even steal passwords, it can hijack browser sessions, perform actions in the backgound while you use a site, whatever.

So it *may* defeat a keystroke logger, if the program is unsophisticated.

It will defeat hardware keystroke loggers (you know, the kind the FBI covertly installs on your keyboard cable). However even with just the master password (assuming you typed that) they could figure out what program/parameters are used to hash it.

kidslick · Jan 4, 2007

has any 1 heard about this

type !000 as your first contact information - they said it helps prevent the spread of worms and other stuff---- ???

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