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Guide to Securing Your Online Accounts
There is no point in worrying whether attackers can abuse account recovery to take control of your account, if the attacker can just bypass basic controls and access your account. Here is a list of recommended security settings for the 12 popular services we looked at.
How Popular Web Services Handle Account Recovery
An examination of 12 popular web services show distinct differences in how different providers implement account recovery. They all have different options, but Facebook and GitHub offers some of the best security options on the list.
Ways Web Services Monitor User Accounts for Fraud
Here are some recommendations for what we’d like to see online services do while monitoring their platform for account fraud. While some of them apply specifically to account recovery, but recommendations focus on improving overall account security.
Decipher: Security Without Fear
Decipher is designed to bring security news and information out of the dark and into the light.
Two-Step Verification or Two Factor: 90% Don’t Use it to Protect Gmail
Less than 10 percent of active Google accounts use two-step verification (2SV) to secure access to their services, like Gmail. While experts commonly favor using two-factor authentication or password managers, these tools are virtually absent from the security posture of regular users.