If you have problems with your email account, the tips from Watchlist Internet can help you. Of course, this also applies if you simply want your account to be more secure.

The Watchlist Internet repeatedly receives reports from desperate consumers about problems with their email accounts. This can lead to email addresses being taken over or hacked. Forgotten passwords, security questions or suspicious activity also often lead to problems.

Email addresses are an integral part of our private and working lives. It would be correspondingly annoying, for example, to lose access to your own email address or have it taken over by criminals. So that you can best protect yourself from hacks and other problems, we would like to give you some tips for securing your email addresses!

Tips!

Follow these tips to best protect yourself from problems and to ensure a quick solution if problems arise:

  • Use secure passwords : Use sufficiently long passwords that no one can easily guess. The length of passwords is important because short passwords can now be hacked within minutes.
  • Use different passwords : Use different passwords for all email accounts as well as all other logins. To achieve this without constantly forgetting passwords, we recommend using password safes or password managers.
  • Specify real data when creating an account : Providing fictitious data when opening mail accounts makes it much more difficult to solve access problems in practice.
  • Use security questions and linked email accounts : When opening email accounts, you can answer security questions or link alternative email accounts. This makes it easier for you to regain access to the email account if it is lost.
  • Keep linked mail accounts current : If you lose access to a linked account, link a new alternative account to your mail account

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  • Use different email addresses for work, private and other things : We recommend using different accounts for work and private life. Furthermore, a private email address for more important things such as online purchases or official channels can be separated from an email address for competitions or social media accounts.
  • Save important documents locally in your emails : Avoid storing important documents such as booking confirmations exclusively in your email account. Also save these locally.
  • If you suspect unauthorized access, change your password immediately : If you suspect that strangers have access to your emails, change your password immediately.
  • Use two-factor authentication : With two-factor authentication, at least when logging in for the first time on a new device, a second hurdle needs to be overcome in addition to the password. This can, for example, be a code on your smartphone, which is also sent and requested when you log in.

Advice & help:

For specific advice requests, please contact the relevant offices that we have listed for you Advice & Help www.watchlist-internet.at/beratung-hilfe

In keeping with the topic: Beware of security researcher Sebastian Wulker

Source: Watchlist Internet
Article image: Shutterstock / From Rawpixel.com
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