Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

openSUSErs !
Help us - someone is hijacking email account, and we have no idea
how-to protect ourselves !

Someone is sending spam emails using account of the members of this
mailing list. (namely someone hijacked Ashish's email account).

How to deal with this and how this can happen ?

Ashish:
It seems strange, but I believe you.
Simple reason: You have a gmail account, and *every* GMail user sees
your name and email, like "from Ashish Yadav
<ashishyadav26@xxxxxxxxx>", when you send a message, but I don't see
your name from the hijacked account.

I.e.GMail sees the hijacked account as "from ashishyadav26@xxxxxxxxx",
same source of email, but without the name.

Now: question to the our dear Open-Source community - How is this possible ?
1. How is this possible for hijackers to hijack the mail source address?
2. How is it possible for GMail to distinguish between a real and a
hijacked email ?

1 & 2 actually happened just in the front of us !

P.S.: see original topic (Vista)
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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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