What are the best Security methods to protect your accoint?

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Everywhere you turn, someone is handing out advice about account security and privacy. And while it never hurts to be reminded about all the ways you can protect your critical data, have you topped to wonder whether any of the various security measures you’re taking are actually effective?

Google did, and it teamed up with researchers from New York University and the University of California, San Diego to analyze more than 350,000 different account-hijacking attempts and see how well some of its most basic account-security suggestions protected users’ accounts. As it turns out, even the most basic of techniques is—to put it in Pokémon terms—super-effective!

It should come as little surprise that security keys (otherwise known as hardware tokens) ranked as the safest measure you can use to prevent many different kinds of hacking attempts—blocking 100% of the attacks featured in Google’s study. On the other hand, simply having to enter a piece of information about yourself to authenticate into your account, like a secondary email address you use or your phone number, weren’t generally that effective (save for automated bot attacks).

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