Monday, May 31, 2010

Is your Mail safe from the hackers?

Is your mail safe from the hackers?

I will say NO if you spend nearly 50% of your time in internet. The reason is, when we use internet more frequently, we’ll go across many websites which says “new user, registration, create a new free account etc etc”. We will also be creating an free account in that website may be for getting some service or to download or to get something. What we’ll do? We’ll mostly use a same password for most of our accounts like system login, mail, banking, websites to avoid forgetting the passwords. We think that this is a safer way. But i’m sure that this is a foolish thing that we do. All websites cannot be trusted. For creating a new user account, they will ask our email id(for sending verification) and to choose a password. What we will be doing is choosing the same password which opens that email id. This data will be sent to that website’s administrator. If that website administrator wishes, he/she can view your email id and the password you’ve chosen. If you’ve given the password of your email in that creating that account, and if the website administrator tries the email and password to open your mail account, imagine the result. You’re being hacked. Trust no one in internet. Use a separate password for every account which shouldn’t have any connection. If my mail have been hacked even though i have my passwords and settings safe, then the hacker may be related to any of the websites i have registered so far. Because, like many people, i had also used the same password for all of my accounts(Not now).