Access to the account under control
Mail security, recovery plan and response to unknown login.
How to prepare account recovery before failure
2 min readA good plan answers one question: how will you sign in when you don't have a phone? Prepare it for mail, password manager and device account.
Secure the mail through which you recover other accounts
2 min readPassword and 2FA are the beginning. Also check active sessions, messages and applications that can read mail.
Unknown login: how to regain account control
2 min readCheck whether the alert concerns your action. If not, secure login, end alien sessions and remove the remaining access routes.
Password in the leak: what to do one at a time
2 min readFirst confirm the information from the supplier and secure the account. Then take care of the places where the same password was used.
Lost phone: secure device and account
2 min readUse the official location service, take care of your phone number and check your account access. Do not quickly delete the methods needed to recover your device.
Updates without false messages
2 min readUpdate the system, browser and applications through their official mechanisms. The banner on a foreign site is not a service manual.
Backup: See if you can restore the data
2 min readSynchronization is not always a backup. Select data, second save place and a simple restoration test.