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Your sarcastic remark might get passed along via a Forward, CC or BCC. It’s not just mail hacking that’s a danger. Microsoft hasn’t made any efforts to improve Outlook’s (Windows/Mac) secure email features beyond the simple ‘tick the box’ minimal support.īe more discreet. Secure email should be easy to use but it’s not. Anyone else reading your mail store will see ‘garbage’. It’s quite possible to encrypt emails so that no one can read them except you and the person you intend to receive it. If your mail host doesn’t offer two-factor authentication, then it’s time to move to one that does. Most mail hosts (Gmail,, Office 365 hosting etc) offer ‘Two-Fac’ in some form. Yes, keeps banging on about this but that’s because it’s important. Even if someone gets your login name/password they still won’t be able to get into your mail. Let’s start with simple things that will greatly increase security but require no change in your current email setup (at least for most people).

You can reduce the risk of their email account being hacked. No need to appeal to a higher power for email protection. There but for the grace of godĪ former National Security Council spokesman is quoted saying “There but for the grace of God go all of us.” which is understandable but ill-informed. Sometimes they get into a single mail account (General Powell) and sometimes an entire organization (the DNC). It seems the hackers are gaining access to online mail storage rather than merely intercepting current messages as they are being sent. The fear is that casual remarks or comments between friends go public without context – ‘terribly indiscreet’ as Sir Humphrey might say. Interestingly, the hacking fear isn’t the release of confidential or classified data, that’s usually handled quite separately. As email became popular, efforts to make it more secure and verified have been somewhat clumsily stuck onto the existing system. The original designers, including the late Ray Tomlinson were focused on getting plain text messages to move between computers (no easy feat back then). The US Democratic Committee had their Microsoft Exchange mail server hacked releasing 19,252 emails with 8,034 attachments (documents, worksheets.Įmail has always been insecure. Last week had more news stories about email accounts being hacked and contents made public but don’t feel sorry for the victims, they only have themselves to blame.Ĭolin Powell uses Gmail – which was hacked.