Re: Email Security question: Hijacked email !!! was: [opensuse] Vista

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
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?

*OK, you say SMTP spoof, but with GMail web interface, it is
impossible to access email RAW code, to see exactly what was changed.

2. How is it possible for GMail to distinguish between a real and a
hijacked email ?

At which fields GMail is looking ?


Sheesh, why do you assume, that the mail was sent via Gmail at all?

Just look at the Received lines in the header and you will see that the mail was NOT sent via Google.

That is exactly the crux of the problem. No account was hacked, just a mail address being used for a joe job. Happens all the time.

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Sandy

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