PASSWORD HACKING/CRACKING

Protect your password in cyber cafe and on public computers:
Source : Email forward

Some time or the other, you must have used cyber dafe or public computers to access internet or mail. Public computers are most prone to password hacking. Anyone can simply install a keylogger software to hack your password. Keylogging is one of the most insidious threats to a user's personal information. Passwords, credit card numbers etc.

It is now very easy for the keylogger to harvest passwords. Each and every keystroke (whatever you type on the keyboard) gets recorded in the keylogger software and the person installing it can easily view what you have typd in.

For example, if you go to hotmail.com and check your mails. Say your ID is aaabbbccc @ hotmail . com and password is snoopy2. the keylogger software records your usename and password in its log file as

www.hotmail.comaaabbbccc @ hotmail . comsnoopy2

Risky isnt it???!!!

There's solution to this problem and you can easily fool the hacker.
The keylogger software sees and records everything, but it doesn't understand what it sees. It does not know what to do with keys that are typed anywhere other than the password or user name fields.

So, between successive keys of the password if you enter random keys, the keylogger software wont ever come to konw where you typed in what..

In the process of recording the keys, the string that the keylogger receives will contain the password, but embedded in so much random junk that discovering it is infeasible.

So...

1.Go to hotmail.com or yahoo.com or any of the site where you need to insert a password or PIN.
2.Type in your user ID.
3. Type in the first characterof the password.
4. Click on the address bar in the internet explorer or Firefox. Type in some 3/4 random charachters.
5. Again go to password field and type in the second character of the password.And probably third too.
6. Again go to the addressbar and type in a few mroe random character.
7. Back to the password field and the next characters of the password.

Keep on repeating the process till you type in the full password in the password field.

Instead of the password
snoopy2 the keylogger now gets:
hotmail.comspqmlainsdgsosdgfsodgfdpuouuyhdg2

Here a total of 26 random characters have been inserted among the 7 characters of the actual password!!!

No doubt it takes a little bit of more time than the usual process, but you're safe and secure that way!!!

IT CAN HAPPEN

Date: Mon, 25 Sep:18:47 +0530
1.) This is a true story, it has been confirmed, the Medical Centre
phone number at the end of this story is real.
This guy went out on a Saturday night a few weeks ago to a party. He
was having a good time and had a couple of beers and some girl seemed
to
like him & invited him to go to another party.
He quickly agreed & decided to go along with her. She took him to a
party in some apartment and they continued to drink & even got involved
with some drug (unknown). The next thing he knew, he woke up completely
naked
in a bathtub filled with ice. He was still feeling the effects of the
drugs, but looked around to see he was alone.
He looked down at his chest, which had CALL 000 or YOU'LL DIE"
written on it with lipstick. He saw a phone was on a stand next to the
tub so
he Picked it up & dialled. He explained to the EMS operator what the
situation was & that he didn't know where he was, what he took, or why
he was
really calling. She advised him to get out of the tub. He did, and he
appeared normal, so she told him to check his back. He did, he found
two 9
inch slits on his lower back.
She told him to get back into = the tub immediately, and they sent a
rescue team over. Apparently, after being examined, he found out more
of
what had happened. His kidneys were stolen. They were worth
$10,000 each on the black market. He is currently in the hospital on
a life support, awaiting a spare kidney.
I wish to warn you about a new crime ring that is targeting business
travellers. This ring is well organized and well funded, has very
skilled personnel & is currently operating in most major cities around
the
world and recently very active in Sydney. The crime begins when a
business
traveller goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A
person in the bar walks up as they sit alone and offers to buy them a
drink. The last thing the traveler remembers until they wake up in a
hotel room
bathtub, their body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that
drink. There is a note taped to the wall instructing them not to move
and
to call 000. A phone is on the small table next to the bathtub for them
to
call. The business traveller calls 000 who have been quite familiar
with
this crime.The business traveller is instructed by the 000 operator to
very slowly and carefully reach behind them and feel there is a tube
protruding from the back. The business traveller finds the tube and
answers
"YES". The 000 operator tells them to remain still, having already sent
paramedics to help. The Operator knows that both of the traveller's
kidneys had
been harvested. This is not a scam or out of science fiction novel. It
is
real. It is documented and confirmable. If you travel or someone close
to
you travels, please be careful. Sadly, this is very true.
I REALLY WANT AS MANY PEOPLE TO SEE THIS AS POSSIBLE SO PLEASE
BOUNCE THIS
TO WHOEVER YOU CAN.
Michele Shafer
ML/Lab Administration
Medical Manager Research & Development
99 Missenden RD , Camperdown, Sydney 2000
Tel:(029)5156111;Fax:(029)4621505

2. I was approached yesterday afternoon around 3.30 pm in the Car
parking lot by two males, asking what kind of perfume I was wearing.
Then
they asked if I'd like to sample some fabulous Scent they were willing
to
sell me at a very reasonable rate. I probably would have agreed had I
not
received an email some weeks ago, warning of this scam.
The men continued to stand between parked cars, I guess to wait for
someone else to hit on. I stopped a lady going towards them, I pointed
at
them and told her about how I was sent an email at Work
about someone walking up to you at the malls, in parking lots, and
Asking you to sniff perfume that they are selling at a cheap price.

THIS IS NOT PERFUME - IT IS ETHER!

When you sniff it, you'll pass out and they'll take Your wallet,
your valuables, and heaven knows what else. If it were not for this
email, I probably would have sniffed the "perfume", but thanks to the
generosity of an emailing friend, I was spared whatever might Have
happened to me,
and wanted to do the same for you.

LET EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS, YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, CO-WORKERS. SEND THE LINK TO EVERYBODY U KNOW.