Opolis Protects Against Cyber-Attacks and Hacking!

Aug. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- Cyber-attacks and hacking attempts have recently reached unprecedented levels. As a part of its ongoing Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC) observed and categorized attacks, monitoring more than 10 million individual attacks targeted at web applications over a period of six months. The analysis shows, among others:
•   Due to automation, web applications, on average, are probed or attacked about 27 times per hour or about once every two minutes. Web applications can experience nearly 25,000 attacks per hour or 7 per second.
•   The United States is the main source of application attacks.

However, one of the most notable examples was China’s suspected attack against Gmail accounts belonging to US government officials. As we know, today practically everybody has a Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo account. The limitations of these email accounts are well known, as they are basically not secure and can therefore easily be hacked.

At the moment, the only free secure email alternative to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo is Opolis Secure Mail (http://www.opolis.eu).

Secure means that every mail and attached document is fully encrypted and can only be read by the authorized recipient and nobody else. To optimize security, Opolis also encrypts access via login name and password, which will never be stored on a local computer. In the case that anyone aimed to illegally intercept, that individual will not be able to interpret a message or attachment.

Besides, the Opolis security concept (the Opolis Onion Model) allows the sender to forbid any further forwarding, copying or printing of a message and its attachment, simply by a mouse click. For example, the sender may decide that the recipient can only look at a photo or text attachments, but is not allowed to forward, print or copy it.  Document fraught and misuse can be eliminated that way.

Additional restrictions posed by ordinary free email providers can be resolved with Opolis: For one, Opolis allows unlimited storage and has a mere 125MB size limits for attachments.

Further, Opolis also prevents the loss of control of the content of an email, once sent. With Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo, when pressing the Send Button, the sender is entirely exposed to the recipient to use the content of an email as intended: The sender cannot prevent the recipient from misusing or manipulating a message. With Opolis, the sender decides how the recipient may further process a message and can monitor and track all sent messages: Hence, if forwarding were allowed, then the sender will see when and to whom a message was forwarded and how it was further processed.

Opolis was launched to provide a fully integrated high-security email and messaging service solution. For a user, Opolis seems to function like any other free webmail, such as Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo. However, Opolis combines all security features and the entire encryption process user-friendly in a single service. And, Opolis operates from any host PC all over the world.

The free service merely requires that both, the sender and the recipient are Opolis users. The registration process takes approximately 5 minutes.


About Opolis

Opolis Secure Mail is dedicated to provide for free the most user-friendly high-security Email and document messaging service. The Opolis website is http://www.opolis.eu. Opolis also offers co-branded solutions for internet and Email communication as well as document messaging. Opolis has been developed since 2005, whereby numerous security technologies were combined in one single service.

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Opolis Secure Mail /http://www.opolis.eu) is a high-security E-Mail and document messaging service. Encrypted mails are sent for free. The sender decides what the recipient of a mail is allowed to do with it (copy, print, forward).