[1995] in WWW Security List Archive
Hacking a Personal Computer via E-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gunnar Gramser)
Tue May 7 06:20:28 1996
Date: Tue, 7 May 96 09:58:01 +0100
From: "Gunnar Gramser" <f9100476@hmunix.hsmaastricht.nl>
Reply-To: <69100476@bdi-stu.hsmaastricht.nl>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Hi to all,
I recently saw a German tv-show that claimed that it is possible to
hack into someones personal computer via e-mail. Program (Computer Club)
said that two Dutchman from Rotterdam made them aware of this fact. To
prove their point they send them some password information they'd hacked of
the PC of one of the presentors.
Since I'm fairly new to this list, I don't know if this might be old news,
if so please let me know. If not, I would like to know if there is someone
out there, who could elaborate on this and tell me if this is indeed
possible, and what countermesures one can take to prevent this.
Thanks for reading this,
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Gunnar Gramser
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