07/08/2025
Greetings.
Due to the recent significant increase in email hacking attempts, which is a result of the recent reliance on email for all business transactions.
And to ensure the safety of your business, we must warn you of the following:
1. Do not respond to any email requesting access to any website to activate your email, clear space, or verify anything.
It is preferable not to open any links within any email, as this could lead to password theft and account tampering if the password is entered.
2. For critical businesses that involve cash transactions, it is preferable not to open any email that is unknown or has a suspicious subject or name.
3. Warn your suppliers abroad that you will not respond to requests to transfer money or change account numbers unless they have confirmed this by phone or fax from a fax number registered with you. (Money transfers are non-refundable.)
4. Please avoid using cracked programs, as they often contain spyware, making your device insecure.
5. Please use a secure email program such as MS Outlook. It's more secure than using webmail.
6- Please use POP3 instead of IMAP if your email is critical. With POP3, hackers can only see your inbox; they cannot see what you've sent, and therefore interact with it or modify it.
7- Review email forwarders daily from cPanel “for critical business purposes.”
8- Change your email password at least once a month. ” Banks do this for online banking each 3 months”
9- Use an OTP (one-time password) system when transferring money abroad, receiving it on your mobile phone rather than via email.
10- If you need to use webmail, you must use Private Browsing or Incognito Windows. There are plugins added to web browsers that spy on you and steal your passwords for email and other applications, such as Facebook and other applications.
11- It's preferable not to add any plugins to your web browser. If you must, the plugins must be from the browser's store, approved and tested, and are the browser's responsibility.
12- Scan your PC against viruses at least once per week.
Ultimately, we secure the servers that hosted your email in every possible way, but we have no choice if a hacker gains access to your email and you give him the password in one way or another, and he takes control of your email, please be careful not to do this.
Thanks
Data Technology team
www.dtegypt.com
