Email hacking

innominat

In recent weeks iv had both my yahoo and gmail accounts hacked one from indonesia other from malaysia. Iv changed my password.
How can I protect against this? Is there anyway?

yoyo

innominat wrote: »

In recent weeks iv had both my yahoo and gmail accounts hacked one from indonesia other from malaysia. Iv changed my password.
How can I protect against this? Is there anyway?

Make sure to run a virus/malware scan. Usually these passwords are ones which have been phished (i.e: you were presented with a fake login screen and "gave" them your password) or a keylogger installed on a machine you logged in on (not neccesarily your own) but worth checking out to be safe. Changing your pasword should help in the meantime run a Eset Online Scan and MBAM Free scans

Nick

chin_grin

Are there extra methods of protecting your accounts? Gmail has a feature of adding a mobile activation to signing in.

Also be sure to make your password as convoluted as possible. That is make sure it's not a word in the English dictionary and contains special characters (like @, _, !, etc).

Cuddlesworth

innominat wrote: »

In recent weeks iv had both my yahoo and gmail accounts hacked one from indonesia other from malaysia. Iv changed my password.
How can I protect against this? Is there anyway?

Your email password should never be used for anything alse. Also, drop yahoo and enable two step verification on gmail.

cookie1977

You should also now change your "alternate" email addresses used to help recover lost passwords for thos email accounts and also change your security questions on these accounts as it's possible to re hack in if you haven't changed these.

Cuddlesworth

yoyo wrote: »

Make sure to run a virus/malware scan. Usually these passwords are ones which have been phished (i.e: you were presented with a fake login screen and "gave" them your password) or a keylogger installed on a machine you logged in on (not neccesarily your own) but worth checking out to be safe. Changing your pasword should help in the meantime run a Eset Online Scan and MBAM Free scans

Nick

Most email hacks are because the same password was used to create a account on a site that was hacked. And for every hack your hear, there are so much more that you never do.

Always have a unique password for your email above all else.

innominat

Thanks for all the help guys. I have Norton on my PC and I update and run often thought that would be enough.

yoyo

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Most email hacks are because the same password was used to create a account on a site that was hacked. And for every hack your hear, there are so much more that you never do.

Always have a unique password for your email above all else.

Thats true, Google 2 step verification is a good extra layer of security as well. Most sites that get hacked do have sha/md5/salted passwords, making cracking that bit harder (although md5 has recently enough been found to be quite weak),

Nick

af_thefragile

chin_grin wrote: »

Are there extra methods of protecting your accounts? Gmail has a feature of adding a mobile activation to signing in.

Also be sure to make your password as convoluted as possible. That is make sure it's not a word in the English dictionary and contains special characters (like @, _, !, etc).

Reminds me of this:

chin_grin

af_thefragile wrote: »

Reminds me of this:

I wish I understood at least 80% of xkcd cartoons.....aw.

ASJ112

What browser are you using ? It would be a good idea to use HTTPS whenever you are logging into any sites, will help reduce against attacks.

innominat

I use an up to date version of firefox.

chin_grin

ASJ112 wrote: »

What browser are you using ? It would be a good idea to use HTTPS whenever you are logging into any sites, will help reduce against attacks.

+1.

I use this add on.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/

ASJ112

Or you can use this one, might be more user friendly

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-finder/?src=search

af_thefragile

chin_grin wrote: »

I wish I understood at least 80% of xkcd cartoons.....aw.

That cartoon basically says the fancy passwords with numbers and symbols are not that difficult to break. And those ones are harder to remember too as they are random letters and number and don't make any language sense.

The difficulty level of a password depends on the length of it so if you set your password as four words you can easily remember, because of the length of the password, it becomes very difficult for a password busting program to figure out all the different combinations till it reaches one the right one.

RUCKING FETARD

15 digits or higher.

Have fun cracking that.

petercena

Nowadays email hacking is become common if you think your email is hacked then i suggest to make a new email id that is the best option.

TonyStark

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Most email hacks are because the same password was used to create a account on a site that was hacked. And for every hack your hear, there are so much more that you never do.

Always have a unique password for your email above all else.

A good tip I found for creating a strong password is as follows. It's basically instead of remembering a series of letters and numbers... start to remember a way to compose your password


So what you could do is take your existing password eg. password7 and push it into a process to create a new password.

yahoo:email:password7:31121984:tony

this would translate to:

facebook:socialmedia:password7:31121984:tony
gmail:email:password7:31121984:tony

service:servicetype:password:dateofbirth:firstname

You can use any sort of permutation as long as its different for each service

Ste-

TonyStark wrote: »

A good tip I found for creating a strong password is as follows. It's basically instead of remembering a series of letters and numbers... start to remember a way to compose your password


So what you could do is take your existing password eg. password7 and push it into a process to create a new password.

yahoo:email:password7:31121984:tony

this would translate to:

facebook:socialmedia:password7:31121984:tony
gmail:email:password7:31121984:tony

service:servicetype:password:dateofbirth:firstname

You can use any sort of permutation as long as its different for each service

/me goes off to start hacking Stark Industries.
Here come WMD's for me.