Yahoo takes care of your Mail account and that is the reason that it is used across the world. You can keep your account secure by blocking the doors which are simple to access to your account. You can modify the Yahoo account Security setting to ensure that if the mailbox is secure than ever. There are lots of security settings that Yahoo provides to keep your account secure.
Create Sign-in Seal to protect against phishing
This security setting is highly advisable to use to stay protected against phishing. The motive of phishing is to steal passwords and precious information. A Phisher creates a fake webpage that looks like a similar legitimate website like Yahoo mail. They convince people to reveal their account information. Just take an instance, you might receive an email from Yahoo which asks to re-enter the account credentials. At that time, make sure if it comes from Yahoo and for that create a secret email using sign-in seal stored in your PC. When you logged into the trusted site, the site will be yahoo.com. The message will be the same as the stored message on the trusted site.
Steps to create Sign-in Seal
- First and foremost, go to the account info
- Go to the option “Create a sign-in seal” from “Sign-in security”
- After that, go to “create a text seal” and there go to “upload an image”
- If you want to create this seal with text, type anything which you think now one can guess it
- In the next step, click on the “save this seal” option that appeared on the side window
Steps to Change Password
You can change the password by clicking on the account information, and clicking on the “Change the password”. This Yahoo account Security setting is really strong.
- Enter the existing password and type in the new password
- Remember to make sure that the new password contains 8 characters long
- Add the combination of small and capital letters along with special characters and numbers
Another essential thing the users have to do is to reset the password information. For changing this information-
Steps to change password reset information
- Click on the “Update password-reset info”
- Go to the “Change question and answers”
- Chose two secret questions and answer them
Check the Account Sign-in activity
You can monitor the signing activities of the mail account. To check the sign-in activities,
- Go to the account info and then, click on “View Recent Sign-in activity”
- You will find it under the “Sign-in and security” option
- The details you can control the sign-in time, access type & location, events, and IP address
- This monitoring option will help check if someone is looking for your account.
- Click on the location column and then, choose IP Address
Use SSL for Account Security (Secure Socket Layer)
By enabling SSL, you have the chance to start an encrypted session. It means that the data will be transferred from the PC to the Yahoo server. Usually, this transfer procedure happens through a secure tunnel. In addition, the data will stay secure even someone sign into the unsecure wireless network. Importantly SSL is ideal to use when it comes to account security from the risk of frauds and hacking.
Edit Yahoo Security Settings
To make changes in Yahoo account security settings, it is recommendable to choose the same tab and can edit a few things by-
- Changing your password
- Adding or removing phone number verification
- Enabling two-step verification
- Adding a recovery email address
Click on the name of any and edit it. Now, depends on the items you choose, a new screen will then open. If you choose to change the password, a screen will open and ask to enter and verify a new password.
These are a few things you can change for security settings. You can get connected with Yahoo experts for help regarding account settings.