Google engineers have spent the last several years moving many of the company’s online services to encrypted links. Gmail is HTTPS by default, and Google search is done over SSL for much of the world. Now the company is working to move its ad-serving and ad-buying platforms to HTTPS, as well. Google’s ad networks are pervasive […]
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How to secure your online email accounts
If you use an online email account such as Gmail or Hotmail, there are some simple steps that you can take to ensure that you account is secure and your data is kept private.
AVG’s Michael McKinnon has some security tips to help keep you safe:
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How to Secure your Online Email
Here are Michael’s Tips:
1. Make sure you are using a long, strong and unique password that isn’t used anywhere else.
2. Enable two-step verification.
3. Look at your account history and sent items folder to see if anyone, other than you, has accessed your account recently
4. Backup and delete any old email that you no longer need, especially email that might contain sensitive data like old passwords or financial information.
For more online security tips, visit the AVG Academy on YouTube
Until next time, stay safe out there.
Google Adds Content Security Policy Support to Gmail
Google has added another layer of security for users of Gmail on the desktop, which now supports content security policy, a standard that’s designed to help mitigate cross-site scripting and other common Web-based attacks. CSP is a W3C standard that has been around for several years, and it’s been supported in a number of browsers […]
Google security – how to lock down your Google account
If you use Gmail as your ‘main’ email account – or rely on Google services such as Drive for work – it’s well worth revisiting Google’s Settings menus to give your Google security a boost.
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Two-step verification boosts Gmail security
It’s not difficult to make your email account more secure. Often, all you need is to spend a little time looking into the security options available.
Last week we looked at how to make your Facebook account more secure and today we’re doing the same with one of the most popular webmail services: Gmail.
Below you can see a step-by-step guide to activating two-step verification in your Google webmail account.
How to improve security in Gmail with two-step verification
Go to your inbox and click ‘Terms and Privacy‘
There you will see the option‘2-Step Verification’
From here you can activate 2-Step Verification. Â First, you have to enter the phone number to which the verification code will be sent.
The code will be sent immediately to your phone. Once you have received it you can enter it in Gmail.
Next, Gmail tells you that on trusted devices you will only be asked to enter the code once.
After this step, you only have to activate 2-step verification.
To complete the process, bear in mind that you have to confirm this account on all the devices on which you access Gmail (smartphones, tablets, etc).
As you can see, this is a simple process that helps prevent unauthorized access to your Gmail account, as when anyone tries to access the account, only you can verify that they have permission.
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Seven million Dropbox passwords may have been compromised
Recently, it would appear that there is no Internet service whose users’ data hasn’t been compromised.
Now it’s the turn of Dropbox, the cloud storage service, which has had hundreds of its users’ passwords leaked and it’s claimed that many more could be published. Specifically, up to seven million users’ data may have been hacked, with the consequent threat to the privacy of the users who store their data on the platform.
These claims come from a user of Pastebin, a text sharing site used by hackers and IT security specialists, who boasts to have obtained seven million Dropbox passwords and, supposedly as proof, has published some of them on the site.
On its official blog, Dropbox was quick to deny that its services have been hacked, claiming that the passwords had been stolen from other services and then used to access the file storage platform.
Dropbox urges users not to employ the same password for various services and to enable two-step authentication.
Gmail: Five million passwords stolen
What has happened to Dropbox also happened to Gmail in September, when 5 million passwords were leaked. Neither Dropbox nor Gmail were hacked. The data was taken from other websites.
With this data in their hands, cyber-criminals can try the same password for other services such as Facebook, Dropbox, Gmail or Twitter.
More | How to create strong passwords
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5 million Gmail passwords leaked
Do you have a Gmail account? This may interest you! A Russian cybersecurity forum has published a file containing more than 5 million Gmail accounts.
According to several experts, more than 60% of the username and password combinations were valid. However, Google says that the information is “outdated“, that is, these accounts have been suspended or the users no longer access them.
In a statement, Google said that it has no evidence that its systems have been compromised, but explains that “whenever we become aware that accounts may have been compromised, we take steps to help those users secure their accounts.“
The file published mainly contains British, Spanish and Russian accounts. If you want to know whether your account is on the list of those affected, you can do so here.
Panda Security recommends you increase the security of your passwords and use two-step verification of your Gmail account.
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