We hear lots of stories of people getting hacked or getting duped into giving out personal information but despite their growing regularity, few take action to protect their online identities. Many ...

BleepingComputer has been focusing on alerting our readers to interesting phishing email campaigns that stand out from the normal invoices, summons, parking tickets, and shipping notifications that we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Now Google has issued a new warning for users who lose their phone ...

A security researcher has discovered a bug that could be exploited to reveal the private recovery phone number of almost any Google account without alerting its owner, potentially exposing users to ...

Losing access to your Gmail account can feel like losing the keys to your entire online life. Before disaster strikes, take a few minutes to make sure you can recover your account quickly and securely ...

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, ...

Google has said the addition of a recovery phone number is able to block all automated bot attempts to access accounts via credential stuffing. The search giant conducted a year-long study with New ...

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.

In case you haven't already set up a recovery phone number for your Google account, and enabled extra security features like multifactor authentication, the search giant is using hard data to explain ...