After extensive breaches over the past few years, companies have been working to develop a standard to protect data transfer over the internet. Protection with a single password is a thing of the past ...

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Your Google account is the gateway to most everything the average criminal hacker could want, including access to your Gmail inbox and the treasure trove of sensitive information it contains.

Phishing attacks continue to surge, with estimates indicating over 800,000 victims in the first quarter of 2024, a 4% rise from the same period the previous year. Attackers persistently try to deceive ...

If you haven’t seen your data exposed in a major data breach within the last five years alone, you haven’t been paying attention. Billions of people worldwide have lost their data many times over. 26 ...

One of the most effective ways to stop your online accounts from being hacked is to turn on two-factor authentication. The security measure, often known as 2FA or multifactor authentication, requires ...

A new wave of attacks is targeting Google and Yahoo accounts in order to bypass two-factor authentication as well as compromise users of secure email services, researchers have warned. On Wednesday, a ...

Running Google Authenticator on your mobile device is an effective way to protect your online accounts and logins with two-factor authenticator codes. But in the past, those codes would appear only on ...

Google Authenticator just got an update that should make it more useful for people who frequently use the service to sign in to apps and websites. As of today, Google Authenticator will now sync any ...

In addition to creating a strong password, the best way to secure your Gmail account and the sensitive data in it is to enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Although not recommended, you may need ...