Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 17:43:13 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: teft of 18,000,000 mail accounts and passwords Message-ID: <20140406154313.GA3062@La-Habana>
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Hello, I have here a case which could be off-topic in first moment, but does not is, I think. The German Govermental Office about Security in Information informs that the police got access to a database of 18,000,000 stolen mail accounts and they will inform on Monday how to inform the owners of the accounts http://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2014/Medienberichte_zu_Identitaetsdiebstahl_04042014.html (in German). What makes me bringing this up here is the question, how the criminals could get access to this amount of mail accounts and passwords and if we as FreeBSD users could be targeted by some of the methods. How they could get access to your (remote) mail account name and password? What comes to my mind as methods are: - Installed key loggers on the local system; - Phishing attacs with faked URLs or with correct URL and DNS attack; - Using unknown backdoors or bugs in browsers to get the saved password; Anything else? And how much we (as FreeBSD users) are in risk of this and what could be done to prevent it. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
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