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Securing your email account

Securing your email account

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Securing your email account

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- [Narrator] For most people, their email account is the center of their digital identity, and our email accounts are one of our most widely used digital contact methods. Bank information, online purchases, social networking services, mobile phone accounts, medical information and other critical updates, information and notifications are often handled through email. Because email accounts are often used not only to establish identity, but also for communication about those identities. So for attackers, an email account is an attractive target. If an email account is compromised, it can act like a skeleton key to the rest of your personal information. And because an email account is such an attractive target, it's important to spend the time to keep it as secure as possible. The first step in securing your email account is to use a reputable email provider. Generally speaking, any of the big email providers should be fine to use, as long as they provide security features to help you…

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