Analysis of E-Mail Security Events and its Solutions

Abstract:

With the rapid development of internet, E-mail has already been an indispensable tool of communication. However, because of some inherent technological insufficiencies, users’ weak sense of security and attacks from hackers, E-mail using is facing with many challenges such as virus-carrying E-mails and E-mail bombs, which results in severe consequences in terms of E-mail security. On the basis of studies of severe E-mail security events in recent years and with the application of technologies on information security, this paper attempts to give two kinds of proposals to solve problems concerning E-mail security from the perspectives of government, company, university and individual respectively. The first is a general proposal for all E-mail users and the second is a proposal on improving information security technology.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 610)
• Pages: 712-716
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.610.712
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Pian Niu, Zheng Tao Jiang
• Keywords: E-Mail, Event, Security, Solution

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