Accounts, Passwords & E-mail articles

Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 379 How to tell whether an e-mail really came from us A fake message pretending to be your hosting provider is the most common attack against accounts like yours - and...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 391 Locked out: password, two-step authentication and the recovery e-mail «I lost my password» is really three different questions, and the first thing to do is work out which one is yours....
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 251 Authenticator app, SMS or security key: which two-step verification to use The short answer: make an authenticator app on your phone your default. It is far safer than SMS, does not depend on...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 238 A strong password and a password manager: how to stop reusing the same one The short answer: a strong password is long, unique and has nothing to do with you. Nobody memorises dozens of them,...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 240 How to recognise a phishing e-mail or message, and what to do if you clicked The short answer: phishing is a message pretending to come from someone you trust (Interweb, your bank, a supplier,...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 222 SSH on your hosting account: keys instead of passwords, and staying safe The short answer: SSH gives you a command line on your account, and it is as powerful as it is dangerous if the...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 258 Someone is sending e-mail in the name of your domain: what SPF, DKIM and DMARC do about it The short answer: sending an e-mail that looks as if it comes from someone@asuaempresa.co.mz is trivial: the sender...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 274 Your e-mail account has been hacked: what to do in the first hour The short answer: change the password from a clean device, end the open sessions, look for and delete the forwards...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 28 Threats sent from your own address: why extortion e-mails show you as the sender The short answer: you received an e-mail that seems to come from your own address, saying your mailbox or computer...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 38 Reading your e-mail on a shared or public computer: before, during and after The short answer: on a computer that is not yours (an internet café, a hotel, a colleague's), open webmail in a...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 38 Lookalike addresses used to fool your customers: spotting them and what to do The short answer: a scammer registers a domain almost identical to yours (one letter swapped, an extra hyphen,...
Accounts, Passwords & E-mail 37 SMTP credential password lost or leaked: revoke it, create a new one and update the program The short answer: the password of an SMTP credential cannot be recovered, not even by us: it is only shown when you...