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Lesson 2: Ask Google: How do I keep my account safe?- How to keep your online accounts secure
- Why creating a strong password really matters
- Yes, you need a password manager. Here’s why.
- How adding your phone number and 2-factor authentication helps protect your account
- How can I review the security of my account?
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How to keep your online accounts secure
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- what is the most common way someone could get into your account and what is the best way to protect yourself from it?(4 votes)
- The most common way for someone to break into your account is by guessing your password. To prevent this, you should make your passwords long (8-16 characters should do) and unique (nothing like 12345678).(10 votes)
- Should I share my password with my mom and dad?(6 votes)
- It depends on how old you are. If you are under the age of 18 I would recommend that you do share your password with them in case you forget it. If your older than that and more mature then you should be fine to keep your password to yourself.(3 votes)
- what is the most common way someone could get into your account and what is the best way to protect yourself from it?(4 votes)
- The most common way is if you have a weak password that is easy for a computer to guess. It's good to have a strong password consisting of mixed letters, numbers and symbols.(6 votes)
- How can someone get in to your bank with out get your bank number ?(4 votes)
- Theoretically, someone could pose as you, if the person knew the answers to your security questions. That's why you should make the answers very hard to guess; don't share them with anyone (especially not on the internet), and don't use information that anyone could find out by asking around (e.g. what is your dog's name?)(4 votes)
- Even if u use this you account can still get hacked.My guestion is when people get your info and they use it is that healthy for your account's(2 votes)
- No, if they obtain information they can get into other accounts especially if you have an email linked to it. If you do, there is a possibility they could obtain the password for your email.. and your email keeps many passwords(4 votes)
- what the most common way someone is able to get in you account and how do you protect against it(3 votes)
- The most common way someone can gain access to your account is through passwords. They may obtain your password through a phishing attack, where they trick you into entering your password into a fake website, or they may have obtained your password through a data breach, where a company's database of user information is compromised. To protect against this, it is important to use strong and unique passwords, update them regularly, and to be cautious when receiving emails or messages that ask for your password or personal information. You can also use a password manager to generate and store strong, unique passwords for all of your accounts, and enable two-factor authentication whenever possible.(2 votes)
- avoid these things(3 votes)
- How do I log the person out when he/she gets into my account(3 votes)
- there might be a button called sign out of all sessions but its not in every website(1 vote)
- my diccord was hacked by a fake youtuber(2 votes)
Video transcript
- Hi everyone, Sal Khan here, and I'm here with Guemmy
Kim, who's a director of product management at
Google in account security. And my question for you, Guemmy is everyone's always talking
about account security. Why should I or the folks watching care? - Yes. So it sounds like a technical term, but it's actually something
that affects us every day. Think of all of the online
accounts that you use, whether that's your bank or
Google or any other service. Well, any of those
accounts actually hold all of your personal information, and like a house, you
want it to protect that personal information that you care about. There's always gonna be things like bugs, and rats, and thieves that try to come in. And so you wanna make
sure that they don't. - And what's gonna happen,
like, if somehow someone gets into my account, what's
the worst that they can do? - Well, I mean, just taking
a Google account for example, like, not only can they take
your personal information like your photos, or information
you're sending in Gmail, you know, they could also get access to all of your other online accounts. As you know, you know, your Gmail account is
actually a key to getting into your bank, your social
media accounts, your eCommerce, because once you compromise,
for example, the Gmail account then I can get into all of
those other accounts as well. - Yeah, people can steal money from you, they can misrepresent you, they can see all your private information, - Right. Exactly. It can get to be pretty scary. So I think this is something
people should pay attention to. - Mhm.