變身郵箱黑客僅需15分鐘

Hacking in to an email account is easier and faster than you may expect. In fact it takes less than 15 minutes, according to a new study。

A class of volunteers, including a TV producer, a baker and a retiree, were able to learn how to hack into someone's account in less than quarter of an hour。

The small group who had limited technological knowledge, followed an online tutorial using a "man in the middle" technique to hack into a computer network and obtain each other's login details.

The controlled classroom experiment involved the volunteers following a 14-minute tutorial which is freely available online. From this they were able to download hacking software which allowed them to access login details and passwords for email accounts, social networking sites and online shopping accounts within a matter of minutes.

There are over 20,000 videos online teaching users how to hack social media profiles, email, smartphones and PayPal accounts. More than seven million people have had their online password-protected information accessed without their permission。

Almost a fifth of people are aware that online hacking tutorials exist and 87 percent agree that this kind of material should not be available online。黑掉你的郵箱可要比你想得容易“快捷”。一項最新研究發現，完成“黑郵”耗時不到15分鐘。

包括電視製片人、麵包師和退休工人在內的一組志願者在不到15分鐘的時間就學會了如何黑掉別人的郵箱賬戶。

這個小組技術經驗有限，但通過線上教程學習了一種“中間人”的技術後，就可黑掉網路，並竊取了彼此的登入賬戶資訊。

在這個被控制的小組實驗中，志願者線上免費學習了一個14分鐘的教程。他們可從該教程下載黑客軟體，在十幾分鍾內便可盜取登入資訊、郵箱賬戶密碼、社交網站賬戶資訊和線上交易賬戶資訊。

如今已有超過20000個線上視訊教程教授如何黑掉社會媒介資料、電子郵件、智慧手機以及線上支付賬戶。而超過7百萬的使用者在不知情的情況下，網路密碼保護資訊被竊取。

將近有1/5的人知道線上黑客教程存在，87%的同意取締這些線上教程。