Wednesday 3 April 2013

People today i am going to tell you about Email Security...that you should follow in order to make yourself secure......

Emails are called as electronic mail which is also a digital message.Emails are widely use in day         today's life as it makes the world faster and represents the digital world in electronic message communication system. But today many crime also happens including email also say if a hacker get access to your email system then he can literally do everything without your permission. It means he can be able to make an unauthorised access to your mailing system. So you  should follow some security while using your email. Those following securities are like:

1:  You should ignore e-mails from strangers.

2:  Avoid opening attachments coming from strangers as it may contains a virus.

3:  Be careful while downloading attachments from emails in your computer. Scan the attachment
     with the update anti virus to check for viruses.

4:  Don't send personal information to the strangers through emails.

5:  Don't click the emails from untrusted sources as it may execute malicious code and spread into 
    your system
.
6:  Don't fill the forms that asking for your personal information as it may spam.

7:   Use email filtering software to avoid spam so that only messages from authorised users are
      received

8:  Beforee sending the email message try to encrypt the email using some encryption software like 
     PGP ( pretty good privacy ) to encrypt the email message so it can be decrypted only by the
     specified recipient.

9: Don't click any link asking for your user name and password though you logged in your account.
    It for sure  is a phising page. ( Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire information such as
    usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by    
    masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication

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