How To Secure Your Email & Computer From Hackers

Hacking has become very common now a days and it is very essential to keep your mail id, password and your computer safe. Hackers were targeting on emails to get all your personal information’s like Chats, Mails & Business deals which were everything for you. So it is essential to have awareness of what hackers do to hack your mail ids. If you come to know the ways they follow to hack your mail id you can at least try be very cautious.

Here are the various ways hackers use to hack your accounts

Key Loggers

Key logger is a small program which will record the matter you type on your keyboard. This is widely available in the market and even a novice person can use this.  Usually hackers will send this file to a person as a mail attachment, embed them in famous celebrity images such that when click on an image it will automatically get installed in your computer and once it is installed it will start recording all the strokes and send those in a file format to the hacker and in addition to that hacker gets remote access to your computer and he will get full control of your machine without your knowledge.

Fake Login Pages

Hackers also use fake user login pages which will be similar to the login pages of your email providers like Gmail, Yahoo. They will use social networking sites like FaceBook, Orkut and collects your mail Id and sends you compressed fake login pages and if you login without noticing that you will be into the trap and it’s just like giving keys to the thief. So you should be cautious while opening the URL’s from social networking sites.

Hacking Tools

Lots of hacking sites and hacking tools like egima, win spy, spincers spy, real time spy and web mail hacking 2.4 were widely used by hackers. Initially, they hack a normal home PC and with help of that they will start controlling other people mails and the transactions going on in their PC. Usually terrorists will follow this kind of methods to send mails abusive/threat mails to misguide investigation officers.

Attractive Advertisement’s

Hackers also use free services available over the internet which will make you fall into problems. They will send you some spam mails or places advertisement in websites which includes a commercial advertisement relevant to the information and will try to attract you with some free incentives. Spywares & scripts will be running in the backend. Once clicked on such kind of ads the spywares will enter your computer and provides access to your computer.

Precautions To Be Taken

• Install Antivirus, Anti spyware programs and keep them updated.(Get Free copies of Microsoft Essentials, AVG, McAfee, Norton antivirus programs here)
• Never share your passwords with others.
• It is recommended to use an alternative email id for online transactions.
• Scan everything you download with an antivirus program. Hackers will send key loggers in zip format, as most of the antivirus programs cannot detect viruses in zip format. So you should be more cautious with ZIP and RAR files. So always scan them after extracting.

As per the statistics more than 50,000 computers were hacked last year and almost 99% of them were not aware of that. Although it is very hard to trace out the hackers but it is not impossible to trace them, Contact Cyber Cells available in your country they will help you in tracing the hacker by using reverse engineering methods.

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