PanoTools NG:
Re: Breached Websites among PTNG subscribers according to Avira
quentin desouza 2014-Apr-16 03:40:20
Hello Roger,
I am very surprised to hear this.
The point that you bake about someone sending mail from your email address
can be done without knowing the other persons password.
It is very easy to spoof a email address because there is no method to
check outgoing mail.
Spoofing can be done by simply creating a mail account with the mail
address you want to spoof.
Probably it can't be done on a Apple computer or using thunderbird as they
check the credentials before allowing you to send mail.
But it can be done using any very basic mail client.
I myself have received many spam mails from myself but I know for a fact
that my mail account has not been hacked.
Regards,
Quentin.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, Roger Williams <#removed#> wrote:
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> I recently installed the Avira app for iOS on my iPhone 5 and it reported
> that 29 of my email contacts had had their addresses and passwords
> breached, i.e., that they had been published on the web. An alternative
> mail address of my own was included among them, and so were many of those
> in PanoToolsNG who have written directly to me (and therefore appear in my
> address book). The only site that I use among those listed by Avira as
> breached for my mail account was Adobe, and of course I was already aware
> of this breach. Fortunately, although Adobe?s mail addresses were breached,
> the passwords were still encrypted, so the possibility of identity theft
> was low, but I changed my password anyway. If anyone is interested to know
> if Avira considers them or their correspondents ?breached? I recommend
> installing this free app and letting it scan your address book.
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> I did receive a couple of spam mails that pretended to be from my other
> mail address but none after that. Hope no-one else has received any? My ISP
> is now set to reject emails that do not originate from my own computer(s)
> so it shouldn?t be happening.
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> Roger W.
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