Monday, March 18, 2013

What Hackers Do With Your Stolen Password


How they steal passwords then hijack accounts
The first thing hackers do is get your email address -- which is very easy if you are on social networks. Then they send you spam mail (when you sign in to any of your accounts, observe from time to time the dots that hide the characters of your password. If you notice that the first dots have erasure marks, someone has already started trying to hack your password for sure). If they succeed in cracking one of your weak passwords, they hijack your account by changing the password, own the account or site, and use it for scams. Then they can transfer money (if available) and make purchases.

Losing a hacked account -- especially an email account -- is heart-breaking enough. Losing your hard-earned bank cash will break your heart more.


Using Your eMail Safely
The Best Backup and Trick eMail Services

These are very useful services and each has a different function. As for photographers, there are rush times you need to send your works to clients before the photos are copyrighted. At those instances, using Safe-mail or Privnote would be wise.



Safe-Mail
As its name implies, Safe-mail is a highly secure communication system because your messages
are automatically encrypted. Security has been designed into the system -- not as an add-on.
Safe-mail has two services:

Private Mail
You can get the free account before opting to a premium one.  

Business Mail
No need saying that business mails should be secure so this is really where Safe-mail must be used. Safe-mail will provide you with multiple email addresses under your own domain.  
Try Safe-Mail here:
http://www.safe-mail.net/


Azigo
I call it the 'pleasure mail box' because it's where you transfer non-hectic, non-business messages.

There are messages that need to be read at once and others which need not be. If all those messages are boxed together, you will have to sort them out and waste time. Azigo solves that problem. Azigo will give you a domain (you@azigo.com) where you can transfer all your 'pleasure' mails from all email providers. No more wasting time sorting clogged business mail boxes. It’s a fast, visual way to see more of what you like.https://azigo.com


PrivNote
The 'James Bond' email. The one to use if you want to send sensitive messages the safest way. How 'safest'? The message you send self-destructs after being read! (So I suggest the recipient to copy details of the note with pen and paper. Making a digital copy of the message defeats the purpose of Privnote!)  

How it works:
After writing your note, Privnote will provide you with a link. Then you copy and paste that link into an email (or instant message) that you send to the person who you want to read the note. When that person clicks the link for the first time, they will see the note in their browser and the note will automatically self-destruct after being read. No one (even that very same person) can read the note again. The link won't work anymore.
https://privnote.com