Two-factor authentication is a new type of login method which is becoming popular these days. In this method you have to provide two way authentications: in first step you need to input the password in a regular manner and then the service will send a text message to your phone with a code that you need to input in the service to get access to your account. You may even order it to improve the security of your account or even you not necessarily use the second step, whenever you log in or you can mark a given computer as “safe”.

When you are creating a new Gmail account you will be asked to provide a “recovery email address.” This recovery email address can be used for recovering forgotten passwords that can be used as a security system to which the email can send to if the original account password is changed.

While registration of Google you can provide a phone number that you can use for password recovery. When you recover the password, Google sends a (free) text message with a code to your provided number which you need to put into your Gmail while recovering the phone number. If the code will be correct then you will taken to another page where your account password will be reset and you can set a entirely a new one.

When you are setting your password then it can be hard for humans to guess them but it is easy for computers to crack the password. So it is better you make use of mixed characters to make your password strong.