Email securit
y is something we are all concerned about. How do hackers get into your inbox? Odds are something you did let them in. Bad habits could cost you your email account. Here are some great tips to keep your email account safe from hackers:
- Use complex passwords. Never use weak passwords such as 12345 or any combination of your name and birth
date. Make your password strange and at least 12 characters long. To make the password memorable, use the first letter of each word from a favourite phrase, then substitute a few numbers for letters. Avoid obvious substitutions such as @ for a, or 5 for S. - Never use the same password twice. Or even variations of it. This safeguards your other online accounts if your email is compromised.
- Know how to catch phishing. Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising the email as a trustworthy.
- Never take the chance by clicking on links or opening email attachments in unsolicited messages. You could end up on a website with malware.
- Back up any information in an email that you don’t want to lose. You can forward it to another email address that you own, so that you’ll always have a copy. Just remember to use a strong and separate password for that email account.
- Protect the privacy of your contacts by not including every recipient in the “to” field when sending or forwarding messages. Instead, use the BCC field, so that recipients can’t see who else has received the message.
- No email that you send will ever be 100% secure, and you can’t control what the recipient does with the information they receive. So never email private information, like credit card details, usernames, and passwords.
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