[2010] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Hacking a Personal Computer via E-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rolf Weber)
Wed May 8 07:45:07 1996
From: Rolf Weber <weber@iez.com>
To: 69100476@bdi-stu.hsmaastricht.nl
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:14:18 +0200 (MESZ)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu (www-security)
In-Reply-To: <49332.f9100476@hmunix.hsmaastricht.nl> from "Gunnar Gramser" at May 7, 96 09:58:01 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>
> 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.
>
don't see the www-security relevance, but ok...
any *buggy* server can be used to break into a system, this includes the
mail server.
another true story is that any protocol can be used to tunnel another,
will say email can be used to tunnel for example telnet. but this requires
help from inside.
rolf
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