How To Make Your iPhone Email Setup Secure

Posted by admin on May 4, 2011 under Information About, News | Be the First to Comment

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If your mobile device has Wi-Fi capability and you connect to unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots for internet access, you must ensure that any sensitive website you log into on your device, like iPhone email setup, is secured with SSL encryption. This is because mobile devices don't usually incorporate security features to directly combat Wi-Fi threats. If you don't know how to do this, you could get help from video tutorials such as those from O2 Guru.

Most public Wi-Fi hotspots are not encrypted, so it's easy for anyone within a certain range to eavesdrop on what you send and receive. For example, there are programs that listen for and show login credentials to unsecured sites like social networking and web-based or POP3/IMAP email accounts. If your data is encrypted with SSL, though, you don't have to worry. If you check your email through the browser or a client app on the device, then it is most likely already secured with SSL. If a website connection is secured, its address will begin with https:// instead of just http://.


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