E-mail Security
E-mail Hacking
Email hacking can be done in any of the following ways:
Spam
Virus
Phishing
Spam
E-mail spamming is an act of sending
Unsolicited Bulk E-mails (UBI)
which one has not asked
for. Email spams are the junk mails sent by commercial companies as an advertisement of
their products and services.
Virus
Some emails may incorporate with files containing malicious script which when run on your
computer may lead to destroy your important data.
Phishing
Email phishing is an activity of sending emails to a user claiming to be a legitimate enterprise.
Its main purpose is to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit
card details.
Such emails contains link to websites that are infected with malware and direct the user to
enter details at a fake website whose look and feels are same to legitimate one.
E-mail Spamming and Junk Mails
Email spamming is an act of sending Unsolicited Bulk E-mails (UBI) which one has not asked
for. Email spams are the junk mails sent by commercial companies as an advertisement of
their products and services.
Spams may cause the following problems:
It floods your e-mail account with unwanted e-mails, which may result in loss of important
e-mails if inbox is full.
Time and energy is wasted in reviewing and deleting junk emails or spams.
It consumes the bandwidth that slows the speed with which mails are delivered.
