Last week there was a news about the security breach in one of the world’s first email service provider, that affected almost 1 billion users worldwide. As a result a lot of its users went out looking for a replacement.
And subsequently, BigPond Email noticed a sharp increase in its number of new subscribers. This all was because BigPond’s USP is email security and privacy. The same surge in growth was seen after US presidential elections. Worldwide, governments are advising its citizens to use email services whose security can be compromised upon easily both on the hands of individual and enemy state-sponsored actors.
Why you should stop using Email services that have security issues
Most of these email services share confidential user data and give back door access to their email servers to the local governments without keeping the victim i.e. the user in knowledge loop. And all these in the name of crime prevention and assistance in counter terrorism operations, but it has been proved a while ago, that this data is used for much more than this purpose, when businesses and government work, hands in gloves with each other to control global business trends.
Email has become a critical part of our lives, as we use it to share our personal info with our near and dear ones living worldwide. Especially in the scenario when immigration across the world is touching a whole time high.
Email servers that were hacked were using outdated md5 algorithm to hash passwords. As per news reports, the crack to this algo has been developed over a decade earlier. As a result the hackers use the crack to compromise the email server security.
From the circumstances that unfolded, it can be easily interpreted, that the email service provider was not giving proper regard to the user data security. And it suffered for the same.
Security by Design
Implementation of security in a communication network is a tough job. That requires real-time attention even after it starts the work. The best approach to data security in case of server security breach is that the server itself is unable to access the user data under normal circumstances. As a result any unauthorized access to the server, by the operator itself or from any outside element won’t solve any purpose for the hackers.
Bigpond Email implements E2EE, and in the latest, we are the only ones to have E2EE in email service provider industry.
Email service providers generate revenue by accessing the user email content and applying algorithms to them to calculate a pattern, based on which they send them unsolicited emails which could be in form of pop-ups and advertisements, so in a way or another the revenue generation process of such free email services intentionally compromise the user data security without latter’s prior information.
E2EE makes it impossible to read user data at source or while in transit, as decryption keys are stored with receiver system, as a result spams and malware emails can’t get through inside your account.
Motive behind our business model
We at BigPond Email Help Number is third party service provider believes that user data security is topmost importance to survive in this industry, as any business model that doesn’t give preference to the needs of its user cannot grow.
And we at BigPond Email Support have a strong wish to apply the best available security tech as and when it arrives.
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