Email Security and Password Protection Online

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Online security is something everyone should be concerned with. Two of the most common things we do online is check emails and login to a variety of websites. In this article we are going to focus on those two tasks and discuss how you can protect yourself from having your information stolen or abused.

Email Security

people rely upon email these days, a lot, both in their personal lives and for day-to-day business communication.

Email is a fast and easy way to communicate but it does pose risks. Hackers can break into your account and steal it from you, then use the information to break into other accounts.

They can also hijack your email account to send out spam and viruses to all on your contact lists.

Here are some ways to protect yourself from email security breaches:

1.Use unique passwords for each email address.

2.Don’t post your email address publicly on websites.

3.Keep a separate (secret) email address for sensitive online accounts such as banking and government logins.

4.Don’t give your email out to third-party sites if you haven’t checked into their legitimacy and read their privacy policy.

5.Don’t share your email login and password with others.

6.Be careful of sending any secure info via email when using public WI-FI.

Be smart with your email. Keep it safe and avoid giving out your email unless you are certain it won’t be abused.

Password Protection

Now, let’s move on to Password Protection. If you’re like most people then the issue of keeping track of your logins for the vast number of websites you visit is quite overwhelming. So you’ve solved the problem by making the same login for every single site you have an account for.

Smart move?

Not on your life!

If you’ve done this, it’s time to take action now before you give away all the information anyone needs to cause you some serious stress. If your identity gets stolen it’s no joke.

You’ll have to deal with the repercussions of having someone break into your bank accounts, set up loans in your name, get a fake driver’s license courtesy of you and do nameless other acts that could tie you up with major problems for years and years.

Where do we start protecting ourselves? With proper password protection.

Here are some of the ways you must start protecting your passwords today:

Use a combination of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols in your password.
Change your most important and sensitive passwords monthly.

Never use the default security questions on a website if you have the choice to make up your own.

Use a program to auto-fill your passwords so that key logger software can’t steal your login information.

Never share your passwords with anyone.

Never send your passwords via email or instant messenger.

Never log into websites containing sensitive information while on public internet access.

Protecting your passwords and your email accounts don’t have to take up a ton of time, money or effort. It’s more of an awareness than anything. Please don’t keep this information to yourself. Education the ones you love, too.

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