How To Prevent Google/ Gmail Account From Being Hacked

I’ve just read some of the wall posts in my Facebook account and another victim was hacked. I’ve always wondered on how their accounts were being hacked. So I decided to create an article on preventing their Google accounts from being hacked. Do you have a Gmail account? Do you a have registered accounts to any Google services like Youtube, Google Drive, Google Plus and etc.? If you do, we have to secure your account because nowadays there has been an increase of hacked accounts in the Internet.

Here are my tips on how to secure your Google accounts:

Make sure your password is strong enough. What I really mean by this is your password should have a combination of Upper Case, Lower Case and a Number at least. If you want to check your password if it is strong enough, you can check it by going to Password Strength Checker.

Make sure that you activate your 2-step verification with Google. This is to make sure that you are the only one who can login to your Google accounts. If you haven’t activated it yet, you can simply follow the instructions at this link: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1085463&topic=1099588&ctx=topic

When you have your 2-step verification activated, never give the code that is sent by Google to your phone to anyone. Keep it to yourself or delete it after it has been used.

When you want to access your Google accounts on a public PCs like Internet Cafe’s where there are a lot of users to each computer, make sure you clean the browsing history and cookies of the browser. This is to make sure that you don’t leave any personal information behind. A keylogger might be installed on that system.

 I suggest not to access your Google accounts on a public PCs just to make sure your Google accounts are safe.

If you are using a Proxy Server, never login to your Google accounts.

I hope this will help you. It is better to be informed that we have services like this with Google. I have been doing these steps and so far, my accounts are safe.

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