Secure your web based email

If you use a web based email service like Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo or others via your browser, you must make sure that it uses an httpS connection and that it keeps on using that httpS connection throughout your email session. Fortunately most of the major email services have moved to making https the standard, and sometimes the only available connection method. Accessing email using a plain http connection might well be the source of many open Wi Fi related hacks. I expect that people simply login to their web based email service without thinking about security and as a result, the username and password are visible to any hackers in range who care to look. Be careful. Some services will use https for only your login, which is insufficient as your email conversations thereafter could be viewed by others. Other services may andfall outand of https, reverting to unsecure http without warning.