Smashing Security podcast #014: Protecting webmail

What can you do to better protect your online email accounts?

In this special “splinter” (or should it be a “shard”?) edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast regular hosts Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined by special guest Paul Ducklin, share tips on how to better defend your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Outlook/etc account.

Show notes:

• Passwords – a Smashing Security splinter
• How to better protect your Google account with two-step verification and Google Authenticator – Graham Cluley
• How to protect your Yahoo account with two-step verification (2SV) – Graham Cluley
• NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over – TechCrunch
• The lesson we all must learn from the Celebgate nude photo hack – Graham Cluley

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.