How secure are attachments that you send through email?

specifically gmail and yahoo mail. can third parties read these attachments?

How secure are attachments that you send through email?
You hear a lot about how un-secure e-mail is, but the fact of the matter is no one is going to try and steal your e-mail unless they have a reason to think they can profit from it. Are you sending bank account numbers? Credit card numbers? Crooks and hackers have an effort-to-potential profit ratio they look at to determine if it's gong to be worth trying to get into someone's system, and I doubt your "secrets" are all that valuable to them. Maybe to you - but not to a thief.





If you're concerned, you can always encrypt the attachment. PGP offers an easy way to do this, and you can always password-protect a ZIP file if you want to go that route.





But like I said, unless you are routinely sending information that a crook can use to clean out your bank account or charge a lot of items on your credit card, I don't think you need to lose any sleep over this.