Knowledge about on how Hackers Hack orkut profiles will help you to protect yours Orkut Profile from Being Hacked by Hackers,Below are 5 methods through which you can protect yours orkut profile or any other social networking profile from being Hacked by Hackers
1.Phishing Attack is the most popular way of stealing other’s password. Popular by the name of fake . The users land on a page where they are asked for their login information and they enter their username and password thinking it to be a real page but actually it is other way round. It submits all the details entered to the programmer or the coder.
Friends this is the most commonly used method to hack ur profile ..... So please be careful. These r some methods which can be used to identify Fake login page....
* Plz check whether there is lock image in ur browser and https:// when accessing login page.
Lock will be on the bottom of the Firefox browser or on top for IE. This shows ur login page is SSL secured... ie ur web address will be https://
( This is the Best and Secure way to identify Fake login page )
* Don't click on the link in ur email attachments... Copy that URL address and paste it to the address bar of the Browser. This will make sure that u land in real page , not fake page.
2.Community Links: Many times you are provided with a link to a community in a scrap. Read the link carefully, It may be something like http://www.okrut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=
3.Orkut New Features: I have come across a page that looks like they are giving the user a choice of selecting new features for orkut with your ID and password, of course!! When user submit the page, there goes his ID and password mailed to the coder.
4.Java script: You must have seen the circulating scraps that asks you to paste this code in your address bar and see what happens! Well sometimes they also leak out your information. Check the code and if you are unsure of what to do, then I recommend not to use it.
So Friend please don't use any Java scripts in orkut.....
5.Primary mail address: If by some means a hacker came to know password of your Yahoo mail or Gmail, which users normally keeps as their primary mail address in their Orkut account, then hacker can hack Orkut account by simply using USER ID and clicking on ‘forget password’.This way Google will send link to the already hacked primary email id to change the password of the Orkut account. Hence the email hacker will change your Orkut account’s password. Hence your Orkut account hacked too.
So a better thing would be to keep a very unknown or useless email id of yours as primary email id so that if the hacker clicks on ‘Forgot password’ the password changing link goes to an unknown email id i.e. not known to the hacker.
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If possible try to avoid Internet Cafe for accessing orkut ( Never do Banking transactions through Internet cafe ).... Because there may be Virus and Keyloggers in that system.. Keyloggers r sofware that will record the key strokes that u make in keyboard.... These softwares will be running hidden and can't be uninstall ed by u easily......
One more: If possible try to use more secure OS like Linux ( Fedora, Ubuntu etc ). And use these OS wisely ( There is no point in blaming OS if u do Stupid mistakes ) ..... Also update ur OS Regularly .
