Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on Gmail in Five Minutes
Your inbox holds the reset link for everything you own. This guide sets up Gmail two-factor authentication in five minutes: passkey first, app fallback.
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Articles by Ahsan Luqman
271 articlesIs Public Wi-Fi Safe for Checking Email?
Passive sniffing on public Wi-Fi is mostly dead thanks to TLS, but the risk moved to the network you join: evil twins, fake login pages, and shoulder surfing.
SBI confirms dark-web leak of 3,897 customer records
SBI confirmed 3,897 customer records with names, mobiles and loan data surfaced on the dark web. Customers were notified on 23 October.
Furusato Choice Breach Exposes 4.45 Million Donor Records
Trustbank confirmed attackers exfiltrated 4,454,097 Furusato Choice member records, including a donation-deduction figure that partly reveals donor income.
How to Report a Phishing Email in Gmail and Outlook
That phishing email is evidence, not rubbish. Report it in Gmail or Outlook, send it to the takedown teams, and never touch anything inside it first.
Signs Your Email Was Hacked, and Where to Check Them
Your inbox reveals a hack long before breach news does. Check your own settings: rogue forwarding rules, unknown sessions, and mail you never sent.
Your Email Address Is Semi-Public, So Audit Where It Leaks
Is your email address public? Not private, not public: semi-public by design. This guide maps every way addresses leak and the audit that finds what is exposed.
Stolen UpdraftCentral Keys Are Backdooring WordPress Sites
UpdraftCentral keys stolen in the TeamUpdraft breach are backdooring WordPress sites with signed commands. What leaked, what the vendor fixed, what to do.
Your Inbox Is a Postcard: Eight Things You Must Never Email
Email is a postcard, not a sealed letter: providers can read messages at rest, and breaches expose old mail. Eight things that should never travel by email.
H2O Retailing Confirms 1.26 Million H2O ID Records Leaked
H2O Retailing confirmed a 16 October intrusion exposed 1.26M records: names, addresses, phones, DOB, emails. A second system is under investigation.