How to see if your emails are being tracked in Gmail before opening them

You might not realize it, but there are now email-tracking tools that make it easy for people to see when you open an email, what you click, and where you're located. (WHHHHAAAATTT..??!!)

"Emails appear no different to your contacts, but you get data when, where, and how a contact interacts with your message,"  an email-tracking service for Gmail designed for job seekers, advertisers, and those working in public relations.

Luckily, there's a handy new tool called Ugly Email that shows you when your emails in Gmail are being tracked, and it even works before you click anything. (AWESOMEEE...!!)

With Ugly Email installed, you'll see a tiny little eye symbol next to any email that's being tracked by tools like Bananatag, Streak, or Yeswear.

Installing Ugly Email is easy.

First, you'll need to make sure you're using Google Chrome as your web browser, which you can download for free here.

Next, click this link to take you to Ugly Email on the Chrome Web Store, click the "Add to Chrome" button, and you're all set.

You can now rest assured that any email arriving in your Gmail inbox will be vetted for tracking tools, and the Ugly Email team promises that it's "actively working on adding more" email-tracking services to alert you to.

Ugly Email just showed up on Product Hunt, so if you're looking for a similar email-alert service that's been around for a while longer, you can always try out PixelBlock, which does the same thing.

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What is Intrusion Detection System All about?

Wherever you look after the definition of Intrusion Detection System or so called IDS, most of them gave the similar interpretations. Its a device or software application that monitors network or system activities for malicious activities or policy violation .. and of course it should produce reports to a management station as a result for further analysis.

Known as active IDS, Intrusion Prevention System or IPS have the capability to work as IDS but with automatic prevention action,

Usually, to secure the network as whole, IDS should not be the only option to be implemented in an organization. They need to work with firewall, antivirus and and other security system as well since the capability of the IDS only limits to monitoring the anomaly packets and produce result for analysis. These anomaly packet must be trap or block anyway to avoid them to enter the network, but IDS CANNOT do that. Even you are make use IPS, still you need to consider  other security elements as well because the limitation exist in IPS itself.

Hope this blog will give you various information and ideas how to start to use IDS/IPS..!!
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