{"id":4097,"date":"2016-10-10T00:52:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:05:55","slug":"how-to-secure-your-gmail-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-secure-your-gmail-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Secure Your Gmail Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine how much data someone could steal if they hacked into your Gmail account? Better that you don\u2019t find out. Instead of leaving your emails vulnerable, take these quick and easy steps to secure your account right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold\">1. Access your security settings.<\/strong>\u00a0Log into Gmail, click your profile photo at the top right of the screen, and select My Account to get to your dashboard. Under Sign-In &amp; Security, click on\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight: bold\">Signing in to Google<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"linked-out\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold\">2. Set a new strong password.<\/strong>\u00a0You absolutely do NOT want a weak password for your Gmail\u00a0account. Check out these common password mistakes and make sure you avoid all of them. Instead,create an unbreakable password.<\/p>\n<p class=\"linked-out\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WecjY49357fb3279a7884129856030.png\" alt=\"gmail-security-tip-password\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To do this, under Password &amp; Sign-In Method, click\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight: bold\">Password<\/strong>. Enter your current password, then enter your new password, and confirm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"linked-out\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold\">3. Enable two-step verification.<\/strong>\u00a0Sometimes called two-factor authentication, two-step verification just means that you\u2019ll need a password AND another identifier to access your account. In this case, your physical smartphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"linked-out\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #69656e\">To set it up, under Password &amp; Sign-In Method, click\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #69656e\">2-Step Verification<\/strong><span style=\"color: #69656e\">. When prompted, enter your\u00a0mobile phone<\/span>\u00a0number. You\u2019ll receive a text message with a code \u2014 enter it when prompted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"linked-out\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MNIEC48157fb330cdc134901883530.png\" alt=\"gmail-security-tip-two-step-verification\" width=\"480\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From now on, whenever you log into your account, you\u2019ll receive a code from Gmail on your phone. That way if someone tries to hack into your account, they won\u2019t be able to since they don\u2019t have your phone.\u00a0That\u2019s it! Done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you really want to be secure, however, you may want to consider migrating away from Gmail and using a safer alternative email service like ProtonMail or GMX. But for most people, these three steps should be enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine how much data someone could steal if they hacked into your Gmail account? Better that you don\u2019t find out. Instead of leaving your emails vulnerable, take these quick and easy steps to secure your account right now. 1. Access your security settings.\u00a0Log into Gmail, click your profile photo at the top right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-firewalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}