<div dir="ltr">Hi Jackson. <div>I'd guess the main technique would be phishing - the human is always the quickest and easiest weak link in any technological security chain, and some modern phishing can be VERY convincing (e.g. embedding attack code into a legitimate webpage.)</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Why Yahoo? I'd say it was purely return on investment due to bulk targets. Attack the sites with the maximum number of potential victims... the same logic is used by virus/worm writers who attack Windows instead of Mac and Linux (leading Mac users to crow smugly and erroneously about their perceived invulnerability: it's just that the Mac userbase has not until recently been big enough to justify good hacking time.) </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>And maybe Yahoo's creaking old infrastructure is weak and more easily breached? Let's see what Marissa does about it.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Cheers</div><div style>Mark</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 April 2013 12:52, Jackson Bates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bates.j@wcc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">bates.j@wcc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Oh wiser ones,<br>
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I'm not much of a security buff, so I'm interested: what are the various methods spammers and crooks use to infiltrate our email addresses?<br>
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My guesses are brute-force / dictionary attacks (but I imagine yahoo et al. block repeated guesses or use captcha), phishing, malware/Trojans (not sure what these would do - capture keystrokes?).<br>
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And do <a href="http://www.seller-service.com/" target="_blank">http://www.seller-service.com/</a> (for example) know they are hosting whatever resides at '/qlsnthcd/1tni5/gyqid3oo/x71m/1695jqh' or has it been snuck on to their server (and again, how? SQL injection leading to access to admin panel?)<br>
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Slightly off-topic, but loosely relevant to U4O2...and asking here means I don't spend the rest of the afternoon Googling it :)<br>
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Aside: Why does it always seem to be Yahoo?<br>
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Thanks for anything that abates my curiousity,<br>
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Jackson Bates<br>
Waverley Christian College<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">--<div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div></div>
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