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Your Google account is going to take two steps to sign in whether you want it or not Google wants all of its users to add a second step to authenticate their logins and its ready to impose this security hurdle on as many people as possible at once. The company has announced that itll do just that sometime soon. Specifically, it wants to apply two-step verification or 2SV to new Google logins with the second step being a yes/no prompt that pops up on a phone already associated with an account. T...

After analysing a staggering 1.2billion bogus messages over a five-month period, the teams found that those in the US were the biggest targets. In fact, of all the dangerous messages sent a whopping 42 percent were aimed at the inboxes of Americans. However, dont feel too smug if you live in the UK as Brits were the next big targets with 10 percent of emails being pushed to users. Next, it was Japan with five percent of all attacks. Along with revealing details on which countries are worst affe...

A compilation of more than 3.2 billion unique pairs of emails and passwords was recently leaked on a popular hacking forum according to a report last month from Cybernews.

A lot of us have probably taken our online safety and privacy for granted but because of several incidents over the past few years, tech companies have come up with ways to make it safer for its users and remind users about how they can control their online experience. Safer Internet Day is an annual […]