I need to know is there any possibility of hacking a email password and what is the way how to hack that?

there is possibility ! but how to do that because my friend password hacked by someone and they are sending mails to the people from his list! how is that possible he use internet from his laptop only!

I need to know is there any possibility of hacking a email password and what is the way how to hack that?
Hacking is a computer art of penatrating security and finding security holes to get access to a computer. With all the insecure stuff that was added to technology like internet hacking could possibly by easy. There is many ways to hack, web based hacking can include MYSQL injection, PHP hacking, and bruteforcing. Though here we prefer to hack computers since through hacking a coputer you can get all information. The first thing you must know to do computer hacking is about OS's. Also programming languages, and much more about security.





To hack just learn MS-DOS and some machine code with some C++. You don't really need MS-DOS and machine code to hack but if you're planning on hacking really secure government stuff then you need them to get location info then IP and develop on that with encrypted information. How you hack any computer or server (servers are pretty easy) is find a open protocol and port of their IP and begin a dictionary attack. If their server or computer has dictionary attack security freeze it since when a dictionary attack is prevented the computer is usually halted for a few hours. They may have a detector like they know when these passwords are tried its a dictionary attack:


aaaa


bbbb


cccc


dddd


But if you make a good app that tries them in a order like this it won't be detected:


bbbb


dddd


aaaa


cccc


You need C++ knowledge, it is possible to make a really good brute forcer without having to make a TXT list just a program that tries all password's just haven't seen anybody make one yet. You might need a really good computer to hack or maybe even 10 really good ones (if you wanna be the world best hack 10 lol) but there is other things you can hack in other ways. Web based hacking, PHP %26amp; Javascript (GAH, its retarded and annoyinger and longer yet easier)


For example, there is ways to penetrate database security with Javascript by typing a javascript code when you're at hotmail.com that makes you receive the password or translate MD5 passwords. Or you can hack into police websites and stuff and get peoples information by typing in a PHP code that somehow gets the information to you or something on the login. Alot of websites have bugs like that but I have to tell you buddy, security is getting so tough someday they'll trash all computers and make it impossible to hack anything, this will probably last MAXIMUM 30 years till its not possible unless they make some sort of black market device to access them through the internet and world wide web.


Brute forcing is a program that tries all possible passwords but if there is security you can force it off by freezing the account with a mixed password pattern until they remove security. As I said, it won't be frozen if the password was "zoolio" and the computer detected this pattern of attemped passwords:


aaaa


bbbb


cccc


zoolio


But it would work with scattered like this:


mool


skdo


fdmv


zoolio





You can also find a vunerability or security hole. Like vista, it has a security hole where it has a automatic remote access protocol and if a vista has a simple username and no password you are in. You can make your own app to do this remote access thing and the security is out! This means you must also know a OS just a well as programming to hack it. I use vista (pretty secure) and it does have that security hole I just mentioned. Security holes are the most easy and best ways to hack. Though there is a protocol all computers have with no brute force security security holes are much faster. A example of a security hole would be if you try to get into a computer with their IP and it says you can't view the files yet when you open CMD in the remote access through a protocol or just internet or file you can view everything.





Injection is the best and easiest way to hack, google it. With injection all you gotta do is get them to visit a webpage or hack their internet and inject. Its undectable usually cause there is javascript codes that can give access to anothers computer if they run it or apps written in javascript so its prettty simple


This would force any security immediately off. Learn some C++ and MS-DOS and when you're a master at those 2 learn machine code then take a while making apps and say after a years of knowing all three of these you can call yourself a hacker. Try to learn PHP and JavaScript along the way and if you have no computer experience with programming then if I were you I'd start with HTML.





Brute forcing usually does work if you make a automated program to switch IP every one password try. The server may detect IP information so you may need a automated program to switch to using someone elses IP every try and you need to be a good hacker or the internet can't have security.





Though some protocols have brute force security all platforms that are not windows usually have all the insecure protocols and accessing protocols don't have brute force security for servers there is always the unstoppable DoS at
Reply:You mentioned that he uses his laptop. If he uses public wifi, and he accesses his email, anyone can read the information he gives to the access point and they can easily steal his email and password that way. (this way is much less time consuming than the brute force method others said which could take days) This can crack a password in an instant because the password is just out in the open. Tell your friend to think more about security and don't access things like the bank account and E mail on public access points.





It'll be very hard to get it back if it is like gmail and yahoo mail, but you can contact the system admin to reset his account if your using corperate e mail.
Reply:He guessed the password. It's not as hard as you think. There is a virus currently going around called Conficker which has broken into numerous administrative accounts by trying to guess from a list of only TWO HUNDRED passwords.





Look at this for more:


http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives...





The most popular passwords on phpbb are "123456", "password", "phpbb" and "qwerty". How could you NOT guess someone's password if they used one of these?
Reply:Your friends should change his password to something stronger than it was before as soon as possible. That is, a longer password with letters and numbers and misc. characters if possible, like ~!@#$%^%26amp;*()_+|





As for how someone could hack a password, here is one way


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force...
Reply:contact your local office of the fbi they will be happy to explain it to you