Posts Tagged ‘factor authentication’

Phishers target Yahoo users

Jun

2013

Yahoo Mail introduced two-factor authentication in December 2011. Two-factor authentication can be used to prevent suspicious access to an account (login from a different country, numerous failed login attempts, etc.) and can be used to verify a user’s identity when asking for a password reset. Two-factor authentication has been in the news a fair bit […]

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How to enable two-factor authentication for LinkedIn

Jun

2013

More and more social media websites and not only are enabling two-factor authentication in order to secure their users better. Following Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter, Microsoft now also the biggest professional network website LinkedIn has introduced two-factor authentication. Here is how to enable it in a few steps. 1. Go to your account and choose […]

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How to enable two-factor authentication for Twitter

May

2013

Not a week passes without seeing in the press that some Twitter account have been hacked (as in used without authorization). Twitter tried to create more awareness about creating secure passwords and educating the users to not fall for the classical social engineering techniques. But, with over 200 million users, it is close to impossible […]

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