15 Minutes to Hack Your Email

[Renegade]

http://www.dailymail...tion-hack-email.html

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.

First result for "man in the middle tutorial" turns up this:

http://openmaniak.co.../ettercap_filter.php

Youtube turns up this:

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?

[phitsc]

Is this guy logging in to google without https? I didn't even know that was possible.

And looks like too much effort to get at a password that is: test

[Carol Haynes]

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.

[app103]

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.

-Carol Haynes (May 27, 2011, 04:09 AM)

I have one of the oldest accounts and yes, it was automatically updated to https.

[Renegade]

It's a man in the middle attack, so you get to do whatever you want.

[daddydave]

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.

[Renegade]

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.

-daddydave (May 27, 2011, 06:37 AM)

Hmmm... Now I wonder if it would be profitable to supply something like an entire downtown area with free Wi-Fi...

[cranioscopical]

Hmmm... Now I wonder if it would be profitable to supply something like an entire downtown area with free Wi-Fi...

-Renegade (May 27, 2011, 06:47 AM)

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!

[Renegade]

Hmmm... Now I wonder if it would be profitable to supply something like an entire downtown area with free Wi-Fi...

-Renegade (May 27, 2011, 06:47 AM)

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!

-cranioscopical (May 27, 2011, 11:20 AM)

Now that makes sense.