RECENT PHISHING ATTACKS SHOW THE IMPORTANCE OF GMAIL MULTIFACTOR VERIFICATION
The phishing attacks at the start of the year have reminded the whole world that hackers are still a major threat. Gmail protects the users from direct hacker attacks, but when it comes to phishing scams, users are those who bear the most responsibility. Gmail support can’t help you much if you don’t help yourself, that is, if you keep on clicking on suspicious links in unsolicited emails. However, the phishing scams have become so superb that users are not to be blamed if they fall for them. The latest of literarily thousand hacking schemes is the one involving fake Gmail login page. When user clicks on a phishing link, a new tab will open with request for re-typing login credentials. As the page looks almost identically to Email login page, many users end up giving away their passwords to malicious hackers. If your account gets lost due to a phishing scam, you will need to contact Gmail technical support and go through several steps in order to retrieve it. Google support will want to know the answer to your security questions, but you might also be asked to provide them with email addresses of people with whom you had communicated in the last couple of days. All of this is needed so that Gmail support Australia will verify that you really own that account. The biggest problem with this is that it usually takes too long.