Secure Email Project Blog Post

This week we discussed secure email, as well as computer security and ethics.

Here you can find a couple of screen captures from my Mozilla Thunderbird Inbox that show the responses I received from Professor Means regarding my digitally signed email and my encrypted email, respectively.

Breach of Security Article:

In recent news, there was a breach data security for an email marketing management firm, called Epsilon. Epsilon handles the email information for roughly 50 major companies, including Target, Capital One, and Hilton Honors. In the breach, the names and email addresses of customers for these companies were compromised, though the full extent is not yet known. Though none of the compromised information could directly lead to identity theft, it provides potential thieves with more than enough information to phish and spam email accounts in attempts to gain access to customer accounts.

Since the breach, the companies affected have sent out emails to their customers detailing what happened and instructions to never provide any account information through email, even if the email claims to be from the company. The article also outlines some guidelines maintaining the integrity of your email account through various precautions and tips, such as reading all emails with skepticism, because though an email may look legitimate, potentially harmful emails are made to look as though the originated from a trusted source.

To read the article I summarized and find out more of the tips you should take, go to the following link: http://woodbridge-va.patch.com/articles/email-safety-after-epsilon-data-breach