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Account Security Introduction
With all of this email activity and people using email, have you ever considered
the security of your email account?
Imagine this:
You use your smart-phone to receive emails regularly. You are out to dinner and
all of a sudden you receive a notification that there's been a suspicious log-in on
your email account.
Your stomach is in knots by the time you finish reading the message. You gulp
down your meal and rush to a computer. It's already too late. Your account has
been jeopardized.
Now you have to spend hours (and days) trying to re-claim and secure your
personal information like your bank and credit card accounts, PayPal or other
payment processing accounts, social media accounts, business accounts (and
messages) and so much more.
Most people think that it couldn't happen to them, but it's actually far more
common than you would believe...
Think about everywhere that your email account may be used to sign up for
accounts, or even plastered publicly due to poor privacy settings in various
networks (not your fault though).
Consider what might happen if someone were to gain access to a pool of
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