Email starts a new era in the horizon of modern age. Email system makes our life lot easier than before. By using email, we can send a message to any person stay anywhere in the world in a second. Now this email system is under the attack of IT criminals.
Present time users do not feel secured when they log on their emails. There are some mistakes, which can cause breach of email protection and lose of email account. Nevertheless, there are still some steps, which can be used to protect email privacy as well as security. The following steps can be followed for protection of email.
Placing strong password can be a good way to protect email address. In most of the cases users use, simple and normal passwords, which help hackers to hack email, address. At present time email, service providers ask for using strong password. Therefore, if you use strong and exceptional passwords then your email address will be kept safe.
Avoiding false emails send to you. Sometimes you can get some false email from unknown sender. They offer you to upgrade your email address. They also can send you that you won a lottery of millions of dollar. This is false. They demand your personal information and sometimes password. These types of offers and mail should be avoided. If you response on their mail then you can be victim of breach of your email privacy. In some cases, you can lose your valuable email address forever.
Not all people have a personal computer that is why they have to use public computer such as library, labs, and cyber cafes and so on. Here the email users should be aware of using his/her email address. After using email account there, he/she have to log off from his/her email id. Only log off is not all. He/she have to delete the history and completely close the internet browser. If you use public computer, then you have to follow these recommendation.
It is the first and foremost duty of the email user not to share the email address password and personal information with other persons. Here you have to keep in mind that if you share the email password with other person then you can lose the id forever. Sometimes you can supply your email password from your personal information. In this case, if you share personal information with others then your email will be in risk. Therefore, you should avoid sharing passwords and personal information with others.
Not saving email password in web browser. Sometimes it is seen that most of the people use this system. However, if you use this password saving system it can be very risky for the security of your email protection. So avoid saving the password in your internet browser.
From these discussions, it can be said that you can escape from the attack of the hackers by following these steps. Here you have to keep in mind that you have to be more conscious about the personal information and password. You should be also aware about using your email account in both private computer and especially in public places like universities, colleges, labs and libraries.