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How To Enable Less Secure App Access For Gmail (And Why You Might Want To)

To be fair, there aren’t many less secure apps out there, but you can still bypass the policy change if you really want to. Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy as turning on a setting. Instead, you need to take the more secure route of setting up an app password. Essentially, Google will generate a random …

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How To Enable Less Secure App Access For Gmail (And Why You Might Want To)

To be fair, there aren’t many less secure apps out there, but you can still bypass the policy change if you really want to. Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy as turning on a setting. Instead, you need to take the more secure route of setting up an app password. Essentially, Google will generate a random …

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How to enable less secure apps in Gmail

Gmail lets you use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to access third-party email clients (such as Outlook and Thunderbird) or send emails from your WordPress site. If you have an enterprise account, you’ll turn on the “less secure apps” feature in your Gmail settings. If you have a regular Gmail account, you’ll use a secure …

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Google Fi’s ‘Number Lock’ adds protection against SIM swaps – here’s how to enable it

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET SIM swapping is an infamous type of scam in which a cybercriminal takes over your mobile phone account to port your number to another phone or carrier. Now Google Fi is offering its customers an extra level of protection to guard against such account takeovers. Describing its Number Lock feature in a new …

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