(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 05 August 2017 10:22:46 Duane Whitty wrote:

> On 17-08-05 10:38 AM, Jared Norris wrote:
> > On 5 August 2017 at 06:29, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de
> > <mailto:post at volker-wysk.de>> wrote:
> >
> > You need to contact Google to discuss this with them. If their email
> > support isn't responsive, try their phone number or their forums. I
> > personally have had great success with their phone number for
> > product issues and their forums for account issues.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jared Norris.
>
> I use their paid service, G Suite for Business (around $4 CAD per
> month on a yearly commitment or $5 CAD monthly no commitment, no idea
> on $Euros) and I have found their service to be excellent.  Highly
> worth the upgrade over a free gmail account in my opinion.  Makes
> getting support very easy.  Sure, you also need to register a domain
> name.
>
Which means a fixed address. I did that. registering a domain name at the 
address I had at the time. But then I changed routers and discovered the 
address was changed and my web page wasn't accessable anymore.  But I 
found dd-wrt can spoof a MAC address, so I got the MAC out of the first 
router and told dd-wrt to spoof it.  Bingo, my registered domain is live 
again. A trick that always online cable modem folks might find rather 
handy. I've  not recorded it, but it might be funny to watch a hacker, 
who based on the MAC tries to exploit an NSA backdoor in that brand of 
router, only to be puzzled at the response, if any, from such a 
rebranding. An added level of security never hurts...

> Regardless of which support model you use I highly recommend turning
> on multi-factor authentication and setting up application specific
> passwords for those that can't do multi-factor authentication - kmail,
> thunderbird (what I use), android login, etc.
>
> Best Regards,
> Duane
>
> --
> Duane Whitty
> duane at nofroth.com


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