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  2. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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    If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password. • Recent activity - Devices or browsers that recently signed in. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've given permission to access your info. • Recent account changes - Shows the last 3

  3. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. 5. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date. 6. Consider enabling two-step verification to add an extra layer of security to your account.

  4. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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    Having a password manager like LastPass can help make this process much faster and easier. Scan all your devices – Download a reputable anti-virus program that will scan your devices for malware ...

  5. Why am I asked to verify my account after signing in?

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    If there's something unusual about your sign in or recent activity, we'll ask you to go through another verification step after you've entered the correct password. This is an important security feature that helps to protect your account from unauthorized access.

  6. Email hacking - Wikipedia

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    Email is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner.

  7. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (due to the fact that installing an entirely new password would involve System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or to act as a preventive measure whereby system administrators check for easily crackable passwords. On a file ...

  8. Pass the hash - Wikipedia

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    If an attacker has the hashes of a user's password, they do not need the cleartext password; they can simply use the hash to authenticate with a server and impersonate that user. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In other words, from an attacker's perspective, hashes are functionally equivalent to the original passwords that they were generated from.

  9. AOL Shield Pro Browser | Free Download | AOL Products

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    A: Yes, the process of migrating from your old browser to AOL Shield Pro is easy. Just open AOL Shield Pro and click the browser menu button (three horizontal lines) in the top right hand corner ...