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How does your email get hacked?
The most common way email gets hacked are through phishing schemes. Phishing is usually done by sending out an email that looks legitimate and sends the recipient to a fake website and has them enter credentials to “verify” information, which is then stolen.
How do hackers get into a server?
There are two primary ways a server may be compromised: The hacker has guessed a password of a user on the server. This may be a email, ftp, or ssh user. The hacker has gained access through a security hole in a web application (or its addons/plugins) such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.
What happens when someone hijacks your email account?
The attacker then silently monitors the communications between the client and the provider and uses the information for malicious purposes. For instance, at an opportune moment, the attacker might send a message from the victim’s account to their bank and instruct them to transfer funds to the attacker’s bank account.
How can hackers hijack your website and read your email?
Instead, all the hackers need to do is hijack your site, and they can do that by meddling with your Domain Name System (DNS) records. DNS is the Internet’s phone book, translating website URLs that people remember (“amazon.com”, “google.com”, etc.) into numeric IP addresses (72.21.215.232, 74.125.224.2, etc.) that the Internet understands.
How can email in transit can be intercepted using DNS hijacking?
To do this, her mail server asks the DNS server for the MX record for the domain, destination.com. The server will reply with the IP address that Alices server will connect to to deliver the email to Bob. In our example, Bobs server has the IP address 1.2.3.4. DNS MX record hijacking DNS hijacking attacks work as follows.
Can a website be hijacked using DNS hijacking?
At the moment (2015), the answer is complicated but hopefully in a few years the answer will be a straightforward no 🙂 Like email until DNSSECis deployed and enforced, websites are vulnerable to DNS hijacking.