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  2. Create and manage 3rd-party app passwords - AOL Help

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    Call paid premium support at 1-800-358-4860 to get live expert help from AOL Customer Care. If you use a 3rd-party email app to access your AOL Mail account, you may need a special code to give that app permission to access your AOL account. Learn how to create and delete app passwords.

  3. Ways to securely access AOL Mail - AOL Help

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    Use an app password. If you use AOL two-step verification or an older email app, you may need to use an app specific password to access AOL Mail. Learn how to generate third-party app passwords and remember, app passwords are only valid for the app they are created for and remain valid until you sign out or remove access to the app. At that ...

  4. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security - AOL Help

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    Authenticator apps provide secure verification codes that act as the second step in 2-step verification. After entering your password, you'll need to enter the code generated by your authenticator app to sign in. How do I get an authenticator app? Download an authenticator app from the Google Play Store or App Store.

  5. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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    Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%. [5]

  6. Password strength - Wikipedia

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    Password strength. Options menu of the random password generation tool in KeePass. Enabling more character subsets raises the strength of generated passwords a small amount, whereas increasing their length raises the strength a large amount. Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password against guessing or brute-force attacks.

  7. Fix problems with third-party mail applications - AOL Help

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    Find your application's "Email Accounts" or "Account Settings" section, select your AOL Mail account, then update to your new password. If you've activated 2-step verification for your AOL account, you'll need to generate and use an "app password" to access AOL Mail from these apps.

  8. Time-based one-time password - Wikipedia

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    Time-based one-time password. Time-based one-time password ( TOTP) is a computer algorithm that generates a one-time password (OTP) using the current time as a source of uniqueness. As an extension of the HMAC-based one-time password algorithm (HOTP), it has been adopted as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard RFC 6238. [1] TOTP is ...

  9. Locked out of your email? Here's how to change and recover ...

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    Changing your password on Gmail is easy, even if you don't remember your password. Here's a step-by-step guide to recovering your account.