safegaurding e-mail passwords
2006-08-10 18:49:23 · 2 answers · asked by pari 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
The details are of course highly specific to the operating system and mail software in use, but most sane software allows you to restrict the IP addresses that can access them. So if you know (because it's policy, etc) that e-mail will only be checked from the corporate LAN, restricting it to the LAN addresses can help a lot.
One thing to keep *careful* note of - the security is only as strong as the weakest link. Restricting the access to the local LAN doesn't help if the attacker has a keystroke logger in place, and it's mailing the userid/password info to a isite in Romania or someplace...
2006-08-10 19:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Valdis K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only the garbage password at your system can be safegaurded ...
2006-08-11 02:30:07 · answer #2 · answered by Manis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋