Russian hackers bypass multi-factor authentication and access Gmail accounts by leveraging app-specific passwords in advanced social engineering attacks that impersonate U.S. Department of State ...

Using a $100 graphics card and a freeware utility, passwords can be cracked at a rate of 3.3 billion guesses per second. If you use a short password, you are not safe.

[Sanjeet] suggests using a separate account for security reasons, as you’ll need to place the username and password in a Python script. The Python script checks the Gmail account every second ...