Is your email account easy to access by hackers?

Believe it or not, your email account is valuable to hackers. Miscreants can break into your email account and use it to send spam to your contacts or fool them into sending them money, and even break into your other accounts containing financial information by simply requesting a password reset. That’s why it’s very important to use a secure email service, and use multiple strong security methods to help prevent unwanted people from accessing your email account.

A secure email service is likely not one provided by your Internet service provider. In the Reno area, Charter and AT&T provide free email accounts as part of their service but they are not very secure because those accounts lack of security features make them easy targets by hackers. See Why you should ditch your Internet provider’s email.

A better option is to use Google’s Gmail because they block most suspicious login activity (such as logging in from another country), and they offer 2-Step Verification which requires providing a code or prompt sent to your phone the first time you access your account from your computer or device.

You also want to make sure that the password that you use to access your email is different from any other password that you use. See Why your most important password is the one that secures your email account.

If you need help with switching to Gmail and securing your account with a strong password and 2-Step Verification, contact Computer Techs today.

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