How to Safeguard Your Account
Most people and firms prefer to use emails to convey important messages to their clients and employees and to share other information. People having malicious intentions are known to compromise email accounts of others and cause them losses. There are cases of people hacking accounts and then pretend to be the owners of the account and send messages that ruin the owners reputation. Deploying strong security measures for accessing an account is important to keep it safe from unauthorized access. Using a strong password for your account is of importance to make it hard for unauthorized persons to crack it and gain access.
A password should be long and consist of a combination of letters, numbers and special characters which make it difficult to guess. Some people may succeed in cracking a password from a separate social account and they try to use it to open other accounts such as emails. There are mechanisms that require one to verify their identity twice before granting access to a specific account. It may prove helpful when one has more than one account especially in situations where one gets cracked since you can continue working with the other.
Emails from friends and other casual people should be dedicated to different accounts from work and other official emails. When using different accounts for each category, one separates information and avoids losing all the data when an account is compromised. It should be a habit to always scan computers regularly to get rid of malicious software which may have entered without your knowledge. There are some programs designed by email providers to scan for threats from emails sent to users and they need to be adopted. It is important to be cautious when opening email from unknown sources since hackers use such emails to steal and compromise user accounts.
To avoid falling victim of phishing and other information stealing techniques, it is better to ignore unknown emails or move them to spam folder. Hackers are known to include links in emails which upon clicking open sites requesting for personal information. Attachments that come in emails from people not in your contacts should not be opened as they pose a risk of installing viruses into your system. Sometimes you get emails from unknown sources that contain a button to unsubscribe and you may be tempted to click to get rid of them but it should not be done as they are risky. Email accounts and other sensitive data should not be used when connected to public networks. The public networks are not very secure and as such most hackers use this as an advantage to steal and hack into user accounts. A person should consider using spam filters that identify and block emails from sources unknown to the user or those reported by others as malicious.