Even if you’re using strong unique passwords, there’s still a chance a hacker could trick you into sharing one of them or a data breach could expose them.

That’s why you need to enable two-factor authentication on your most important online accounts, including email, financial and social media.

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“I think we all have the tools, I don’t know if we all know how to use them as best as we can be,” said Thorin Klosowski, a privacy and security activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“I do a lot of our how-to guides guiding people towards best practices and security and privacy and making sure that you are as safe online as you can be,” explained Klosowski.

To protect yourself, there are a few important things you can do.

One of the top recommendations for keeping your accounts, and data, secure is to use a complex, unique password for every website.

Apple is set to make this process easier with the introduction of a dedicated Passwords app in iOS 18.

“Hopefully it’ll get more people using them,” said Klosowski.

On Android, you can use Google Password Manager or a third-party app like Bitwarden, which is free.

But the second key thing to do is turn on two-factor authentication.

“It’s a little like odd to get used to, but it is very helpful even if you are using unique passwords everywhere,” said Klosowski.

So even if someone got your password, they would still need to enter a secondary, randomly generated code before they could login.

This is often texted to your phone, but the most secure option is to use a two-factor app.

Duo Mobile and 2FAS are popular options. Google and Microsoft also make two-factor apps.

“Right now two-factor authentication is one of the best things we have to protect our accounts,” said Klosowski.

If your password is the door handle, two factor is a deadbolt for your accounts.

It might take a bit to set up and it might make logging in take a tiny bit longer, but it’s all worth the extra protection.

Vice President Harris was mocked online for requiring campaign rallygoers to present a government-issued ID upon entry, despite the Democratic presidential nominee opposing voter ID laws. 

Ahead of Harris’ rally alongside vice presidential running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in Arizona on Friday, her campaign sent out an email advising that only confirmed RSVPs will be admitted. 

The email said those on the RSVP list must present a matching government-issued photo ID in order to be admitted to the venue, KTAR reported. 

The exact site of the Phoenix-area campaign event, first announced on July 30, was not revealed until Thursday. The email specified the event would take place at Desert Diamond Arena, located 15 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, with attendees being admitted Friday between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., according to KTAR. The campaign reportedly said the Arizona Democratic Party would send out “non-transferrable invitations” by email on Thursday afternoon to attend Friday’s event. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris walks out into a packed rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday Aug. 9, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

X users began sharing screenshots of the email and lambasted Harris for perceived hypocrisy. 

“Voter ID is racist, but you can’t get into a Kamala rally without ID,” actor Kevin Sorbo wrote to his 2 million followers. 

“So let me get this straight: Requiring ID to vote is racist… But requiring ID to attend a Kamala Harris ‘rally’ is NOT racist?” Nick Sortor wrote to his more than 448,000 followers. 

“You need photo ID to get into an invite-only Kamala Harris event, but not to vote?” another user, Ian Haworth, echoed. 

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“Kamala Harris requires photo ID to enter a private campaign event. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to require photo ID to vote. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to require ID before crossing our border. Weird,” political commentator Gunther Eagleman also wrote on X.  

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

In 2021, Harris gave her first interview as vice president on the topic of changes to voting laws with Soledad O’Brien on BET.

“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that could mean,” Harris said about allowing voter ID laws. “Because in some people’s mind that means, well, you’re going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t – there’s no Kinko’s, there’s no Office Max near them. People have to understand that when we’re talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are.” 

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event near Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Of course, people have to prove who they are. But not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are,” Harris added. 

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Not long after then-candidate Joe Biden named Kamala Harris his vice-presidential running mate in August 2020, Harris penned an op-ed in The Washington Post on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the constitutional right to vote. 

“That is, unless you were Black. Or Latina. Or Asian. Or Indigenous,” Harris wrote. “And when the 19th Amendment was ratified at last, Black women were again left behind: Poll taxes, literacy tests and other Jim Crow voter suppression tactics effectively prohibited most people of color from voting.” 

Supporters cheer during a campaign event with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, outside Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The vice presidential candidate at the time then tried to make a comparison to modern times. 

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Harris accused Republicans of “once again doing everything in their power to suppress and attack the voting rights of people of color.” 

“They are deploying suppressive voter ID laws, racial gerrymandering, voter roll purges, precinct closures and reduced early-voting days – all of which have been laser-targeted toward communities of color since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013,” she wrote. 

Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

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A man is recovering after being brutally attacked and robbed earlier this month in downtown Los Angeles by a mob of young people on bicycles.  

The Aug. 2 assault, according to the victim, Shailoobek Bazarbai Uulu, happened while he was stopped at a redlight at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Hope Street.  

Uulu said a group of teens on bicycles pulled in front of his vehicle and when the light turned green, he attempted to pass them.  

“When I was passing, one of them threw a bottle of water in my car,” he explained. “So, I don’t know what happened.”  

As he pulled over and got out of his car, he said the group of roughly 30 teens surrounded him, with the situation turning violent very quickly.  

Footage of the incident was captured by a witness who happened to walk up on the mob as they assaulted Uulu, stole items, including his backpack and wallet, out of the vehicle, shattered the windows and stomped on the hood and trunk of his car.  

“This is what L.A. has come to,” the man filming the incident can be heard saying. “Dog, I’m not even playing. I literally just parked. These kids are wild, not older than 20.”  

In the video, Uulu is seen barefoot, limping as he’s pushed and punched in the back of the head by several of the teens.  

He sustained a broken leg, along with deep cuts and lacerations all over his body after getting kicked and punched while on the ground. The injury to his leg, he said, will require surgery.

“Suddenly, someone pulled me out and she literally saved my life,” he told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo. “It was a young lady, take me aside and hug me.”  

At least a few adults, including the man filming the incident, are seen in the video attempting to stop the attack and get the teens to leave the area where traffic was backed up as a result of the violent brawl.  

Uulu said he’d been planning on moving, which is why many of his belongings were in his car, much of which is now gone, including documents, cash and credit cards.  

The victim insists he did nothing to provoke the attack, but in the video, one of the teens can be heard telling the man filming that Uulu cut them off with his car, nearly hitting them.

When the police did arrive, the teens had all fled the area. The victim was then taken to the hospital where he learned the extent of his injuries.  

“It’s a been a week and no one has been arrested,” he said. “They stole my bank cards, and they even tried to use it a few days later.”  

In addition to the lost property, his vehicle was badly damaged, with Uulu saying it was estimated to be $20,000 worth of repairs needed.  

“I am alone here and never thought that I could find myself in such a situation,” he said.  

A GoFundMe has been organized to help him recover from the losses.  

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact LAPD’s Central Station 213-486-6606. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-222-8477 or leave tips online at www.lacrimestoppers.org.