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hacking of your Gmail account. It will now be well-nigh impossible for someone to steal your account. With the Google’s 2-step verification one can very conveniently secure his account that would simply refuse to open up even if someone gets hold of the username and the password.The system is not only simple to apply but is also difficult to circumvent. While signing in, you would be – in addition to the usual username and password - required to enter a code that Google will send you via text or voice message. Thus, for stealing your account, the hacker would not only possess your username and password, but need to get hold of your phone as well. This seems almost impossible.
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Gone are the days when your email accounts were susceptible to hacking. Now you can be in total control of your account with new techniques to take care of its security. Google has come up with a unique arrangement that lets you put an additional layer of security against
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Procedure To Setup Google's 2 -Step verification
- Open this website https://accounts.google.com/SmsAuthConfig to start setup.
- Setup your mobile phone by verifying the code send to you.
- Remember your computer for 30 days.
- Click Activate.
Sign in with 2-step verification – This is quite simple. All that you have to do is to enter in Google account your username and password in the usual way. The next step would be to put the six-digit code that you will get from your phone by way of text message or voice message. At this stage you can choose to remember your computer for 30 days. It will in essence mean that you will not be asked for a code when you sign in from this computer for 30 days. If however you sign in from any other computer, you will be asked for a code
Once you turn on this application, non-browser applications and devices that use Google account, like Gmail app on your phone or Outlook, will be unable to connect to your account, unless you enter the special password, called ‘application specific password’ – that would be generated through a few steps - to allow this application to connect to your account. Mind it, this password would be needed only once for each device or application.
