EMAIL SPOOFING
WHAT YOU SPAM EMAILS CONTAIN
The only
thing worse than receiving new assignments from your teacher every week in the
mail are the hundreds of thousands of spam emails that you receive every hour.
You would have hardly searched for a product online, when you receive a mail
from a company that manufactures it.
This is
annoying and half of them contain malicious links that can give the hackers a
backdoor into your system. It’s upto us to recognize the virus embedded emails
and steer clear. The following video helps you with just that.
Email Spoofing
You know
that you would be a millionaire if you got a dollar for every phishing email
you have received.
Those
emails will never give you 10 lakhs but this just might.
Email
spoofing refers to sending out forget messages typically in the hope of
gathering information. It is a fairly easy task to perform and even has a room
to show your creativity.
But how do
you
·
Set
up a server for email spoofing?
·
Write
a code to spoof a mail?
·
Write
a spoof mail that looks completely legit?
Watch this video to answer all the above and more….
HOW
SPOOFING AN EMAIL WORKS!
Email as we
know it today consists of three major section:
1. The envelope
2. The message header
3. The message body
The box in
red above highlights the email’s envelope. Normally the envelope fields are
filled out for the sender automatically during the translation of the header.
The stuff in blue is the header and body. This is the stuff you normally see
when you open an email that was sent to you. It is possible for the sender to
tinker with the message header and spoof the sender’s identify so the email
looks like it is form someone other than Dude1
Say you have a friend that likes to play practical jokes on you. And you receive an email from them that say this:
Notice that
the envelope fields are connect, but the From and Reply-To are false. When
Dude1 receives this email, he may think it’s from his boss. When he hits
“Reply” all he’ll see in the To: field is the “BossMan” name, but it will go
back to his friend who spoofed the email, Dude2.
Cyber
criminals can cleverly disguise an email in the same way and custom tailor it
for their intended victims.
1. In which folder of cpanel is the
code for the website written?
a. code_html
b. public_html
c. cpanel_html
Ans- b. public_html
2. Which of the following part is
tinkered with in emailing spoofing?
a. Signature
b. Header
c. Body
d. Links
Ans-b. Header
KEY
TAKEAWAYS!
·
Email
spoofing is the fabrication of an email header in the hopes of duping the
recipient into thinking the email originated from someone or somewhere other
than the intended source.
·
For
sending a spoof email we will need to set up own domain name and servers.
·
While
browsing emails, we should exercise caution and not open any attachments from
unknown sources.
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