Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Email accounts are a particularly popular target for hackers. Emails often contain a treasure trove of valuable data, up to and ...

More and more hackers are targeting regular people with the goal of breaking into their bank accounts, stealing their crypto, or simply stalking them. These types of attacks are still relatively rare, ...

Update, May 19, 2025: This story, originally published May 18, has been updated with even more advice on securing your Gmail account against the continuing efforts of threat actors to take control of ...

Discovering that your email account has been hacked can be an extremely distressing experience, as it opens the door to serious consequences such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, ...

Every year, millions of Americans fall victim to identity theft and fraud – crimes that can wreak havoc on your finances and your sanity. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), there were 1.

If a mail account is compromised, hackers can not only read messages, but also reset passwords and take over other accounts. This makes it all the more important to take an immediate and structured ...

Some users received an email in their Outlook inbox saying, Your account has been flagged for unusual activity. This message indicates that Microsoft has detected unusual activity on your account.

Getting locked out of your email is no fun. To start, maybe you forgot your username or password, and now you have to go through all the security verification steps to reset it. Or perhaps you thought ...

More and more hackers are targeting regular people with the goal of breaking into their bank accounts, stealing their crypto, or simply stalking them. These types of attacks are still relatively rare, ...