precautions while using securing email

If you discover that you don t like using Priority Inbox, simply change it back. Do this by selecting the old inbox type in Settings. Email accounts are used for anything from personal emails to friends to sending important letters to you bank or someone important, and some people are so sad and have nothing better in their life but to look into other peoples emails account for money, pleasure, or personal reasons, and can put your privacy and even your life at risk (on an extreme scale), so here are some steps on how you can protect your email like the government does. As a hacker, I know what you can and can t hack through.

Email is vulnerable to both passive and active attacks. Passive threats include Release of message contents, and traffic analysis while active threats include Modification of message contents, Masquerade, Replay, and denial of service attack.

Most emails are currently transmitted in the clear (not encrypted). By means of some available tools, persons other than the designated recipients can read the email contents. Email address. Have a complicated email address, not so you will forget it, but so no one else can guess it through your name (it should contain a number - for example, John023@ .com)

It is believed that some countries are routinely monitoring email messages as part of their surveillance. This is not just for counter-terrorism reasons but also to facilitate combat against industrial espionage and to carry out political eavesdropping. However, it is not devoted to the national agencies since there is a thriving business in providing commercial and criminal elements with the information within emails.

Email contents can be modified during transport or storage. Here, the man-in-the-middle attack does not necessarily require the control of gateway since an attacker that resides on the same Local Area Network (LAN), can use an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing tool such as ettercap to intercept or modify all the email packets going to and from the mail server or gateway.

It is possible to send a message in the name of another person or organization. Every email service provider, be it Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. has different security measures. All of the above companies timely provides security steps to protect user s account. They timely send emails to their customers like your account is being attempted to compromised from different IP addresses. Please change your password.

Previous messages may be resent to other recipients. This may lead to loss, confusion, or damage to the reputation of an individual or organization. It can cause some damage if email is used for certain applications such as funds transferring, registration, and reservation.

False messages may be inserted into mail system of another user. It can be accomplished from within a LAN, or from an external environment using Trojan horses. Passwords are there to protect your account; without passwords we would be lost. Make sure your password is complicated; do not use your name, or last name. For example, do not put in John because the first thing that hackers will do is to guess your password based on your name. Don t use a phrase or use a pet name that most people know about. For example, do not put in MyPetMaddy or ShowUsYouFeelGood . Try to use a complicated code like mkael092 or use a code like this 09484M92 , so it is impossible to guess. Choose a password you have not previously used on your account before.

It can put a mail system out of order by overloading it with mail shots. It can be carried out using Trojan horses or viruses sent to users within the contents of emails. It is also possible to block the user accounts by repeatedly entering wrong passwords in the login.

To provide a reasonable level of privacy, all routers in the email pathway, and all connections between them, must be secured. This is done through data encryption, which translates the email s contents into incomprehensible text that, if designed correctly, can be decrypted only by the recipient. An industry-wide push toward regular encryption of email correspondence is slow in the making. However, there are certain standards that are already in place which some services have begun to employ.