Gmail users, secure your account - tips by Google !!!

[INDRANIL]

The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world—opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression. But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things. Today, despite the efforts of Internet companies and the security community, identity theft, fraud and the hijacking of people’s email accounts are common problems online.

Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists.

Here are some ways to improve your security when using Google products:

Enable 2-step verification. This Gmail feature uses a phone and second password on sign-in, and it protected some accounts from this attack. So check out this video on setting up 2-step verification.

Use a strong password for Google that you do not use on any other site. Here’s a video to help.

Enter your password only into a proper sign-in prompt on a https://www.google.com domain. We will never ask you to email your password or enter it into a form that appears within an email message. Here’s a video with more advice.

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[JayCub]

Thank you for the information Indra, people need to be aware of scams and need to have good passwords, nice to see Google doing their bit

[jj1two3]

Thanks for the information INDRANIL.

[INDRANIL]

Indeed Jay . Cheers jj1two3 .