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A hacker probably has all he/she needs to access your accounts if they can access your email. Even messages that you delete may be sitting on a server halfway around the world, in perpetuity. Thats where an iPhone VPN comes in.
Email Risks
Eavesdropping
False Messages
Identity Theft
Invasion of Privacy
Message Modification
Message Replay
Unprotected Backups
How Email Works
Most email is sent with Outlook or Thunderbird (email client program) or Yahoo or Gmail (web-based application). Mail is then sent to a server, an electronic version of a brick and mortar post office. Email for sending generally uses SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) across Internet Protocol (IP) networks. For retrieving emails, the protocols are called the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP).
When the server receives an email message, it checks for a valid address for the message recipient so it knows where to relay the message to. If the address is valid, but the server is busy, the email server will try the backup servers or keep trying to send the email for several days. Some servers are third-party servers, meaning they do not belong to either the sender or the recipient. The metadata for each email will show the hops or the journey that the email travelled from server to server.
Email insecurity is due to the pathways in sending and receiving. If you are using http:// and NOT https://, then your email is insecure. If you are using a public hotspot/Wi-Fi, your email is still insecure. SMTP, POP and IMAP protocols do not encrypt messages. Your messages and possibly your username and passwords are sent and received in plain text for anyone to read. In addition, your plain text messages are stored in servers and may be backed up and saved indefinitely.
The iPhone VPN
The iPhone connects to servers for access to corporate and personal email. Users who employ an iPhone VPN have hardware based encryption and authentication plus the security of SSL. Connecting is easy at the office or on the road by signing up with an iPhone VPN service provider.Configuration of the iPhone VPN interface is simple and fast. This layered approach to email combines hardware protection and network security.
With an iPhone VPN you can interact with your company's network or your personal email and have secure access via Exchange ActiveSync, IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV, IPSec as well as SSL VPN.These types of protocols often have certificate-based authentication.Communications back and forth from the server are secure and data stays safe with an iPhone VPN.
