Again: "Somebody knows your password" (Google)
Volker Wysk
post at volker-wysk.de
Fri Oct 13 22:46:47 UTC 2017
Am Samstag, 14. Oktober 2017, 00:34:30 CEST schrieb Karl Auer:
> > Google notifies me by mail that a log in attempt, with my password,
> > has been prevented, because of the device being unknown.
>
> Turn on multifactor authentication. It's really easy and makes a breach
> much, much less likely. Even if they know your password they cannot get
> in.
So, I'd turn on two-factor authentication, and turn it off for my computer
again? I'm retrieving my mail via fetchmail every few minutes, A second factor
isn't feasible. For my smartphone, it's similar.
Cheers
Volker
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