IS GMAIL HACKER PROOF?

As we all know that this data is saved on Google clouds storage which enables us to save our data with advances security and sharing abilities, the information we save has become at risk at these platforms. Hacking became the trend to give out our confidential information to the wrong forces. To keep our data safe from any hacking, there are some strategies which users can follow.

Webmail service providers have served the world in a grand way by letting people communicate without being present in front of someone. We have many webmail services which offer us a complete package of mailing, social gathering, sharing, etc. Gmail has been one of the earliest and largest webmail service providers. It has established itself as a brand by improving on regular basis and giving the enhanced featured applications to its users across the globe. With a large base of users, come the bugs which users have to face in using these webmail services. There can be several issues linked with not working of your mail account. And there are many help providers for the same as well.

Gmail has also been most renowned for its reliability if we talk about the safety of our data on the mails. Though, Gmail is a product which is fully technology based, still there happens to be some faults and inaccuracies with it. When Gmail was a new webmail provider, only the invited users could use the services but since it became a free webmail provider it attracted a lot of attention of users. On a positive note, people got to have their personalised mail accounts with the free service, but some crimes were also happened to occur with this too.

Cyber crime which involves the hacking of accounts became a major concern for all of the users who were getting the free benefits of the mail account. The increasing users of Gmail, which attracted the hackers towards it, became the reason for getting the accounts hacked by these harmful forces. With increasing threats came the service providers who gave solutions to hacking by providing the best suitable solutions to diminish the same.

Hackers found a unique combination by which they could hijack your mail accounts. CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) is the technique by which hackers could get into your account details as soon as you click on a link given on a spam mail, any other pop up ad or any dummy for the hacking site. Clicking on these links transfers a digital spyware in different forms like cookies or java script codes to your computer. Till you are logged into your account, these spywares ask your web browser for your account information like contact list, mail data or pictures, etc. and keep downloading your account info.

Once your Gmail account is hacked, these spywares could also use your financial information to do forgery with your bank account details while you’re doing online transactions or making any e-payments. The information of your bank account gets shared with these spywares in the same way like the essential details of your Gmail account.

Since this practice of hacking mail accounts came in existence, support for the same also found existence to give a safe networking to the users. There’s no one solution to the problem, but there have been some suggested strategies and focus points which came from the experienced software entities to help people out. Users have stayed protected by putting these references into action at the most of their working time while being logged into their Gmail accounts.

You can protect your mail accounts by taking a quick clue from the below mentioned points. 

• Make sure that you don’t let your browser remember your login information as it becomes very easy for the hackers to crack into your mail account through the hacked web browsers.
• Keep a strong password for your accounts; use Gmail’s two step verification to stay protected on a higher level.
• Use a web browser which instantly responds to any security threats such as Firefox; the add-on No Script on Firefox guards against such threats.
• Set your browser’s to block cookies whenever you log into your account to have a safe browsing.
• Make it a habit to log out of all your accounts when you are finished with the activity on a particular site, and try to log out of your internet browser when you are not using the network to stay safe.

 To summarise, trusting a website is the major reason for getting your account hacked, and simply using internet is not. Gmail is one of those trusted sites which have large user base and thus it’s the centre of attraction for hackers. However, by following the above mentioned points can keep you safe. And having a broadband connection to use internet is the maximum safe point for anyone.