Hacking in to an email account is easier and faster than you may expect. In fact it takes less than 15 minutes, according to a new study.
A class of volunteers, including a TV producer, a self-employed baker and a retiree, were able to learn how to hack into someone's account in less than quarter of an hour.
The small group who had limited technological knowledge, followed an online tutorial using a ‘man in the middle’ technique to hack into a computer network and obtain each other’s login details.
The controlled classroom experiment conducted by Life assistance company CPP Group Plc (CPP) involved the volunteers following a 14-minute tutorial which is freely available online.
Well, I suppose we all knew that all that was out there. Sigh... Why can't people focus more on being productive rather than destructive?
Is this guy logging in to google without https? I didn't even know that was possible.
seemed to https in the sniffed output - so why isn't is encrypted?
You can switch off https in GMail - and in the early says http was the norm. I don't think older accounts were automatically updated to https.
I have one of the oldest accounts and yes, it was automatically updated to https.
It's a man in the middle attack, so you get to do whatever you want.
Well I know one TV producer, a self-employed baker and a retiree, and maybe even a butcher or candlestick maker or two who may have read the article, now have an education on why "free wi-fi" should be avoided at all costs. This is a hard message to get out there, articles like this help just a little.
Rather like the Chinese were offering for the London subway system during the upcoming Olympics? My, aren't they generous?
By the way, those candle-stick makers get on your wick!