When a Gmail account is hijacked, the damage rarely stops at email. A single compromise can expose banking resets, cloud ...

Facebook is no stranger to cyberthreats. Many hackers and scammers use Facebook to reach their victims, and keeping up with all their new techniques is challenging. Most of the time, people don't even ...

Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.

Google is planning to delete inactive Google accounts, which includes Gmail, Photos and Drive services, this week. Ahead of the deadline there appears to be a bit of a scramble by users to get back ...

If you need to reset your password, a code or password reset link will be sent to the recovery email or texted to the recovery phone number. Jim Rossman / TNS This week a reader asks about how to ...

Anyone who's ever had their Google account hacked can tell you what a pain it is to recover. You'll spend hours or even days on it, and recovery isn't guaranteed, no matter what you do. On Wednesday, ...

When you can’t sign in to your Google account, try Google’s account recovery process to attempt to regain access. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic When you can’t sign in to your Google account, your ...

In this post, we will show you how to add a recovery email address to Gmail. Gmail is a free email service by Google with more than a billion users worldwide. Users can access Gmail via a web browser ...

1] Is two-factor authentication active on your account? Two-factor authentication is a security feature that adds layer of protection to help keep your account safe. However, it can sometimes become a ...

Apple's standard data-safety practices, along with its new ultra-secure protection option, come with some risk if you forget your Apple ID password. Here's what to do if that happens. It might happen ...