22 December 2020Ashley S. Miller Specialist of Customer Service Dept.
Summary Email is the necessary communication way in our daily life. Many people care about the transfer security of their mails. So, how to prevent email leak?
There are many reasons of email leak. For example, we may easily get into the phishing email and then the mail account is stolen. The mail may be illegally hold up during the transfer. Here are two cases about email leak.
Cases of Email Leak
Case 1
In January 2017, the mail server, owned by the company of Beckham’s P.R. manager, was hacked. That caused about 18.6 million mails were leaked, including those between Beckham and him. The email contents destroyed the positive images built up by Beckham and caused severe public relations crisis.
Case 2
In November 2016, Hillary’ s campaign manager got into a phishing email, which caused the internal email leak. The hacker disguised the Google customer service worker and sent an email to the manager. It said his email account had been cracked and shall be modified as soon as possible. Then, this hacker gave the mail to WikiLeaks. The contents were released as the election result was uncovered day by day. That greatly stroke Hillary’s election and affected the final result.
How to Prevent Email Leak?
Strengthen Awareness of Email Security and Set Safer Password
1. Don’t easily believe the email from the unknown accounts and check the senders carefully.
2. Set a safer password, at least a combination of 12 digits, including characters, numbers, symbols, and uppercase and lowercase letters. The password shall not be guessed or inferred easily.
3. Place the confidential and important files in the specific folder and use the third-party to encrypt. These encrypted emails will not be easily hacked or leaked.
Method 1: Encrypt Email with Renee File Protector
Renee File Protector is the encryption software that can lock and hide the local files and the USB flash drive. Besides, it can encrypt files to .gfl. Since the encryption algorithm is completely private, the files encrypted with this software cannot be cracked by brute force.
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Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.
Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.
High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.
1. First, download and install Renee File Protector. Then, under [Common], click on [Encrypt File].
2. Click on [Add Files] or [Add Folders] to select the target file/folder.
3. Finally, encrypt the file/folder to .gfl or .exe.
Besides, follow these methods to open the encrypted files.
gfl: Navigate to the gfl file and enter the correct passcode to open. Renee File Protector should be installed beforehand.
exe: The file is only opened with the password.
It is noted that the .exe encrypted file may be banned and forbidden by the mail suppliers. We suggest you encrypt files to .gfl.
Method 2: Encrypt Email with Renee SecureSilo
Renee SecureSilo is the professional encryption software that can encrypt files and protect privacy information. Through the virtual silo, it makes access limitation and strengthen security.
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You can use Renee SecureSilo to prevent email leak. Here are the steps.
1. Download and install Renee SecureSilo. Then, click on [Protect USB] and then click on [Protect Attachment] under [Protect Email Attachments].
2. Then you will reach to the below window. Click on [Add] and then select the target attachment and click on [Next] to go on.
3. Finally, send the mail with the protected attachment.
Conclusions
From the above cases, we’ve know that email leak cause severe results. Therefore, we should attach importance to the email leak prevention. We can use Renee File Protector to encrypt the attachments to .gfl, or compress the file to the encrypted zip with Renee SecureSilo. Both of them are safe and easy to use. Don’t worry. The file encrypted by these applications will not be banned or forbidden by the mail suppliers.
