How to secure your Email id address?

Do you want to know that how to secure your mail id address? In these days, Email is one of the important tools of communication. The simplest definitions of Email are a mail or information that is sent electronically. The email as first used in 1945, it facilitates users over a computer network to communicate with each other. SDC’s Q32 and MIT’s CTSS were the first computer systems to use email for communication. This mailing service was introduced to the public by an Indian Siva Iyyadurai in 1978.

The abbreviation of email is Electronic mail. Email is a system used for creating, sending or receiving and storing data in digital format over a network of computers. In earlier days the email system was based on Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which protocol is used to send mails from one server to another. In these days email technology uses the store and forward model. In this model users send and receive information in their computer terminals. The benefits of email are easy to use, Environment friendly, high speed, informal and conversational, reliable and secure, data storage, cheap service. Here I have given some points to secure your email id address.

Tips to secure your email id

Setup SMS Alerts

Go to your email account settings and add your mobile number to receive SMS alerts. Once that’s set up, Google will send you the password reset code whenever somebody tries to reset your password. From this SMS Alerts you can secure your email id address from hackers.

Avoid public Wi-Fi

Avoid using public Wi-Fi for accessing email or transacting online with a credit card because of this the hackers can take money from your account. Casual browsing and YouTube watching (without logging in) are no problem to secure of email address.

Login frequently

Even if a hacker gets hold of the answer to your security question, they cannot use it immediately to reset the password and break into your Gmail account. Password reset with security question is possible only after 24 hours of your account being inactive after receiving the password reset instructions. So checking your mail regularly is a good. Also, it will help to reset the Hotmail account’s expiry date.

Keep a secure password

Password are given to protect your email account without password you can’t maintain privacy. Do not use your name or last name in your password; make sure that your password is complicated. For example, do not put “Divya” because the hacker’s first thing to guess your password based on your name. Don’t use a phrase or pen name in your password. For example “Show us you feel good”. Try to use complicated codes like “hrtejk976” or use a code like this “76543H564”. So this code is impossible to guess by hackers. A good password will contain a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters such as %,$,*,@.

Don’t gives your mail id password to others because of this they can forward your photos and mails from your mail id to misuse.