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Ok, so you have discovered a great new integration service, which integrates your yahoo, gmail, and all other mails to one place and gives you a single point of control. The site requires you to give them your login credentials, and you do. Now, how sure are you of the site that you just gave your email passwords to.

have you even thought about how dangerous an activity that is, take for example your gmail username and password, thats basically giving away your calendar, checkout, adwords , orkut and hundred other services’ password. Think about it, you mail box has all your information, credit card numbers, financial statements, personal letters, addresses and other critical data that you wouldnt want other people to view. A lot of people don’t think about all this when they do give out their passwords.

Please and I mean please don’t treat your personal credentials so lightly, it can prove very dangerous. You never know, one day you may start getting charged for things you never bought. Here are a few tips ….

•  Make sure the site is authentic, read more about them.
•  Look for the SSL certificate if any .
•  Check for phising, everybody remembers the ICICI bank fraud site which got access to many ICICI bank accounts and also ork0t. Mozilla 2.0 and IE7 both have phishing filters, make sure they are ON .
• Make doubly sure that you really want to use such a service. A little more work is always more secure than a service.
• Look for a “Skip This Step” , there is alwas another alternative.
• Don’t ever give out your financial site credentials, this is a serious no no

If the users become more aware, Im sure such sites will stop misusing personal data. We will also have lesser spam to deal with and also more security. Stop complaining that the internet is not secure, learn how much ever you can on staying secure.