Google instructs "How to prevent email accounts from being hacked"

ByJay Wennington

32 million Twitter account information is soldIs being done,272 million e-mail addresses and passwords leaked out from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!Or100 million passwords leaked from Russia's largest SNSIt is not unusual for large-scale information leaks to occur with familiar SNS and mail account services. Google has given me a way to protect you from such hacking damage.

Google Online Security Blog: New research: Understanding the root cause account takeover
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/11/new-research-understanding-root-cause.html

How To Prevent Your Email Account Being Hacked? Google Study Explains
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-prevent-your-email-account-being-hacked-google-study-explains-2613509

In the US presidential election held in 2016, John Podesta served as chairman of the election committee at the camp of Hillary Clinton of the Democratic candidate. E-mail account of such Podesta chairperson was hacked and tens of thousands of mails of Clinton campsPublished on WikiLeaksIt was done.

It seems that the method of hacking mail account of chairperson Pedesta was a very simple method. The hacker succeeded in stealing the login information of the mail account of the PODESTA chairperson by sending a notice to the PODESTA chairperson that the account was hacked and executing password change work on the disguised screen on the Google login screen It is. After that, hackers released information obtained from Podesta chairperson 's e - mail account on WikiLeaks and influenced the result of the 2016 US presidential election a little.


These methods are just one way to hack Gmail's account, Google's free email service. According to a study by Google, more than 15% of users reported that they experienced taking over social media or e-mail accounts in about one year from March 2016 to March 2017, during which 788 thousand It is also made clear that the account information for the matter is being stolen by hackers.

Google works with the University of California, Berkeley to track how account hijacking happens. In the survey, by analyzing several black markets in a year from March 2016 to March 2017, we investigate how account hijackers manage passwords and other data stolen I will. Researchers involved in the survey were held in Dallas, TexasComputer and Communications Security ConferenceWe publish the details of the research results in.

ByBlake Connally

According to the survey, many people use the same password for multiple accounts, so if a hacker succeeds in obtaining a password for some account, the account of another service can also be hacked in many cases And that. Also, hackersKeyloggerYaFishingWe often use sophisticated technologies such as tools and software, and it is also clear that we collect IP addresses of targeted users. Based on these pieces of information, hackers seem to steal more important information such as user passwords.

Based on the findings, Google insists on making the Gmail account safer. In addition, we also announced that we will provide more advanced security for "people prone to hacking targets" such as politicians and actors. In addition, as a way to keep the account safe,Using a password generator to set up a secure password"When"Enabling 2-step verification"Is cited. According to Google, it seems that Gmail account is nearly unhackable just by implementing these two.

2-step verification of Google Account can be used from the following page

Google 2-step verification process


In addition, other measures that users can take are "Do not visit potentially dangerous sites" or "Do not click on suspicious links included in e-mails".