Gmail Security Tips From Google

These are some security tips from Google to keep your Gmail account secure.

The last tip is very important. Gmail provides you an option for providing a cell phone number where they will send a code to reset your account password if you happened to get locked out of your account (By accident or by someone else). The blog post explains the tips and is a must read for anyone using Gmail.

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Re: cell phone number… once an attacker knows your password, is there anything stopping them from changing the cell phone number of the account?

Nothing… they can change it. The account recovery options is not for that scenario I suppose.

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