Email Security & Usage Around the World (Infographic)
Original posted at SampleEmails.org
In the following part of the article we will study some stats and facts about the email security and the usage across the globe. It has been seen that around 25% of the people send email at late night just to prove their commitment. There are 57% of the users whose half of the working day is spent on email. Email is also relied as a search tool by around 86% of the people.
Some of the other interesting facts about email say that in every 6 months around 17% of the Americans create a new mail address. Email address is changed by 30% of subscribers annually. Around 43% of the users check their mails for 4 or even more times in a day.
If we consider an email to be an envelope of 1mm thickness and then arrange them vertically then they will reach a height of around 294,000 kms.
When it comes to hacking, 1 out of every 5 email accounts gets hacked and this also includes the trusted and the secured services like Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. If we talk about the biggest usage of Email across the globe in terms of region then North America would top the list by 43% which will be followed by Europe with 27%. Further down the list is APA and Rest of the World with 16% and 14% respectively.
As per the stats of October 2012, the list of Global Spam categories is topped by Sex/Dating with 62.7% . Other categories in the list include jobs, Pharma, Watches, Casino, Mobile, Software, Newsletters, Degrees and weight loss.
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Safety and Security of WordPress Blog (Infographic)
Originally posted on WPTemplate.com:
WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) in use and around 17% of the websites that are present on the internet these days are powered by this CMS. With the growing use of WordPress its security and safety has also become one of the major issues to deal with. In the year 2011 more than 144,000 word press sites were hacked and this number reached to 170,000 in the year 2012.
The website owners and the core developers of WordPress are responsible for the security of the system. In order to keep their security tight, the WordPress site owners should keep various points into consideration like updating the WordPress to the latest version that is released, keeping back of data, do not display the version of WordPress on blog, reporting bugs to WordPress security, not installing the free themes, using strong passwords for all the entry points, using only trusted plug-in and others.
Some of the most common ways that result in the site being hacked are having virus on the computer, keeping easy to crack password, approving comments that are non relevant, Contact US form going to the script in the site for processing and website displaying only the plain HTML+ JavaScript pages. Thus one should take care of these points to avoid getting their site hacked.
If you fear about US Spying STOP using Google and Facebook NOW, says Germany
An interesting article from our content partners at HackersNewsBulletin.com:
If you are worried about the US spying on you, you need to stop using Google and Facebook, Germany’s top security official has warned.
Internet users who fear their data is being intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies such as the National Security Agency’s should stay away from American websites run through American servers, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said.
Leaked revelations about the NSA’s wholesale information on foreign web users has prompted outrage in Europe and calls for tighter international rules on data protection.
Read more here.
Google: Lots of legit websites can infect your computer
An interesting article by Suzanne Choney from NBCNews.com Security section:
Many of us know to stay away from unfamiliar websites — with links to them sometimes sent by a stranger via email or posted on social media sites like Facebook — to avoid malware. But in a new report, Google says familiar, legitimate sites that have been compromised by hacks pose a threat too, especially if there’s any kind of delay checking for malware by even the most vigilant of webmasters.
The information was shared by the search giant in a new worldwide transparency report about Safe Browsing, which found that 2 percent of the 14.2 million websites based in the U.S. that were scanned by Google were hosting malware. That compares to 8 percent of the sites scanned in Russia and the Ukraine; in places like Turkey and Italy, it was 11 percent.
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Game Company Ubisoft Hacked, Passwords Compromised; Change your Password NOW
An article from our content partners at HackersNewsBulletin.com
Game company UBISOFT is the latest victim of hackers because they just launched a security update for the users that they have been hacked by hackers and requesting users to change their passwords.
In their security update, they confirmed the hack and also discussed about the things hacked by hackers, which are:
- User names
- Email Addresses
- Encrypted passwords
According to Ubisoft, their one of the web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to their online systems and in result of that hackers accessed the info we provided above and they also stated that all credit/debit card information was safe from this intrusion.
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List of Organizations Hacked under “NSA PRISM”; it never ends
An interesting article by Mohamad Amin Hasbini and our content partners at HackersNewsBulletin.com:
US NSA reported to Hack on China and European countries, in one of the biggest scandals for the Obama administration, the program is called PRISM and the list of hacked organizations never ends:
- Major Telecommunications providers in China (CERnet)
- Major Fiber optics providers in East Asia (Pacnet)
- Major Universities in China (Tsinghua)
- ALL Chinese mobile phone text messages
- ALL Networking equipment were hacked (CISCO)
- European Union offices
- Germany SMS messages and 500 million connections a month
- EU Council of Ministers
NSA former spy Edward Snowden has released all these information, US Government revoked his passport and is requesting him back, he is currently stuck in Moscow Airport, requesting Asylum to 15 countries.
Britain and Italy were also on the list of countries hacked. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, CISCO, Yahoo all are part of this huge spying campaign.
The original article is located here.
