Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Online passwords how and where?

         I was hearing an incident of hacking of email password of one of my colleagues in the office.He used his email password as his account password with a music site. The hacker hacked his email password.I thought to write about it as many people also not aware of some facts in online surfing. 

In on-line browsing your email id is your identity. It is unique.Never trust an email id unless you have exchanged id  physically or any other secure communication. 

In online world, we have two kinds of accounts. One is account with mail service providers and one with other service providers. The gmail,yahoomail,hotmail...etc are email accounts, where as accounts with ebay,railway booking,ksrtc booking,any music site account...etc  are service accounts. The service account is not at all to give an email id which you can share with your friends/colleagues or add to office data. However, they allow specific communication with respect their service is concerned.

Generally, service accounts ask you to register first time. You need to have email id and and other info. Along with this info, you need to enter password. Which one will you enter ? or email password or something new password?.

Never ,ever enter your email account password. I hope,we hope,every one hope that email accounts providers will not cheat us. They will not take our account data.Hence,email id are unique identity in the virtual world of INTERNET.

Since we are registering same email id with many service accounts and (with email)password, if any fake service account provider hack our email we can not access email account and or any service account any more.

The lose of  your email account is not a simple lose ! In order to make you clear,please note that email account creation needs more information than your service accounts. If your account is used by any one for illegal activities, you will be liable. So,we need to give importance to email accounts as same as we give it to SIM cards.

No bank can ask you any information through email.Such kind of mails are considered as spam. Just delete them or inform to your bank. but never respond.

Another big scandals of this day are online lottery announcement/fund transfer email.These kind of emails are very interesting to read and if you give attention to them you will loose lakhs of rupees.Always believe that  " No one can give you money freely in this world".

I hope this info is good to you.  


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