{"id":24522,"date":"2022-02-02T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/internet-security-how-to-avoid-having-your-email-hacked\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T13:26:54","slug":"internet-security-how-to-avoid-having-your-email-hacked","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/internet-security-how-to-avoid-having-your-email-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Security: How to avoid having your email hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information on how to avoid getting your email hacked.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/about\/press-releases\/2018_pr-scholars-phishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report from Kaspersky<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">in March 2019, their anti-phishing system prevented 482 million attempts to visit fraudulent webpages in 2018 a 2 fold increase from 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cybercrime is on the rise. In light of these alarming stats, it is of crucial importance that internet users are careful in their internet activity and take all the necessary precautions to ensure that they do not become victims of cybercrime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Use separate email accounts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If one email account gets hacked, this should not be automatically compromise all aspects of your online presence e.g. your banking information , social networking accounts, website registrations etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Create a unique strong password\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For each of your email accounts, if someone were to break into your account, and see all your account registrations, they will test the compromised password against all the accounts which may lead to further hacks if you are re-using a password.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A few guidelines for coming up with a strong password:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do not use sequential numbers or letters, e.g. 1234, abcde, qwerty<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do not include your personal information, e.g. your name, date of birth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The password must be long, if possible an average of 15 characters<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Use a mix of characters, lower and upper case letters, numbers, symbols<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not sure how to change your email password?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-how-to-change-reset-email-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How do I change my Email Password in cPanel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-change-an-email-password-in-website-panel-net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to change my email password in Website Panel (.Net)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How to change email password in Plesk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/customer-zone-how-to-change-email-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to change your email password via Customer Zone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Let your email contacts know<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part of a hacker\u2019s strategy is to get access to your address book with the aim of hacking others as well. Send a message to all your email contacts as soon as possible so that they know to avoid opening any emails, which is probably loaded with malware, that have come from \u201cyou\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Change your Customer Zone password and security question<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Customers are able to access their domain\u2019s control panels via their customer zones. It would be best to update your security question and answer if the hacker gained access via<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/customer-zone-update-your-1-grid-password-while-logged-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Customer Zone<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">You are able to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/customer-zone-how-to-change-email-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">update the password<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">here as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Check your forwarding settings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is not uncommon for hackers to modify your email settings so that a copy of every email you receive is automatically forwarded to them. Not only can they monitor your logins for other sites, but they\u2019ll keep a watchful eye over any interesting personal information! So, check your mail forwarding settings to ensure no unexpected email addresses have been added. Don\u2019t forget to check your email signature to ensure nothing &#8220;spammy&#8221; has been added.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-how-to-add-a-forwarding-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to see forwarding rules via cPanel.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-add-a-forwarding-rule-in-website-panel-net\/\">Click here to see forwarding rules via Website Panel (.Net)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Scan your computer for malware and viruses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is also important. If you find anything, please ensure it is addressed, and then change your email password again. If you don\u2019t have an anti-virus then it would be best to invest in one. Free versions have limitations to what they can scan. Comprehensive security software will provide you with an effective digital shield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Beware of phishing scams<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Never give away your personal information including passwords, users may be tricked into submitting their usernames and passwords to certain pages so that their service continues to run as normal, we will never request for users to do this. Some phishing scams are more advanced and can clone a high profile website with only slight variants to the domain name, then state then provide pages to submit personal information, such as username and passwords as well as credit cards. Each time you are asked for your personal information, alarm bells must go off, and verification checks must be completed before submitting the details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Never click on links in emails\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are not expecting a link, even Spam mails attempting to sell you a product may redirect to malicious websites or trigger downloads of malware and viruses to your computer. If you receive an email from your bank, or bill payments visit the website manually, do not do the easy thing to click on the link provided, if the email has been sent by an attacker, you may be redirected to a bogus website which looks much the same as the real website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Do not open attachments\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do not open attachments that are sent in SPAM mail, even if the attachment looks innocent, eg a jpeg file. Filenames can be spoofed, for all you know you could be downloading an .exe file which will execute as soon as it has downloaded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Ensure that all your devices have an anti-virus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Make sure it&#8217;s installed and it is up to date, and it is good practice to scan your mail as it is received or sent, you can never be too careful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Avoid using public Wi-Fi to check your mail<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While it may be convenient to use free Wi-Fi, this can be extremely insecure. There are programs called network sniffers that can run in the background from hacker\u2019s device which can monitor network traffic. This data can be analyzed for information such as usernames and passwords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where possible use business email addresses only for sensitive information, such invoices and proof of payment, with spoofed email attacks, you can receive an email from a private email address with a legitimate sender\u2019s name tricking you into providing sensitive business information such as bank details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"Picture_x0020_1\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib aligncenter\" style=\"width: 498px; height: 361px;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33033182892\/original\/AHcWfJbscma1YZyCxJ0p8D6BRWyJEs-e_w.jpg?1573723721\" alt=\"Image result for city of joburg website hacked\" width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information on how to avoid getting your email hacked. 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