Microsoft Introduces Optional Two-Factor Authentication For Its Online User Accounts
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on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Microsoft today announced that it has launched two-step authentication for its Microsoft accounts. This optional feature, which will roll out to all Microsoft accounts over the next few days, works pretty much exactly like the two-factor authentication schemes you are probably already familiar with. Besides your usual password, you will also need a second piece of information – a short code, for example – to log in to your accounts. To get these codes to you, Microsoft also today launched its own Authenticator app for Windows Phone, but the company also notes that “there are excellent authenticator apps that already exist for those platforms and are compatible with Microsoft account two-step verification.... read the full post.
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on 04/16/2013
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Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website with Google Authenticator and Twilio SMS
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on 04/10/2013
Excerpt: Authentication to an existing Python application. If you are looking for software you can purchase and plug in, you should take a look at Authy. Why Two-Factor Authentication? Back in the day, it used to be that enforcing a strong password policy was sufficient to prevent unauthorized access into your user’s accounts. (Ah, those were the days, when kids were polite and respected their elders). However, as the security landscape continues to evolve, it is becoming clear that a strong password policy is not enough any more.... read the full post.
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Evernote: We're Adding Two-Factor Authentication
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on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Evernote, after suffering a data breach that caused the company to reset passwords for all of its 50 million users, announced that it plans to adopt two-factor authentication as quickly as possible. "We were already planning to roll out optional two-factor authentication to all of our users later this year," said Evernote spokeswoman Ronda Scott via email. "We are accelerating those plans now.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Notetaking, Security, Story, Two-factor authentication
Excerpt: “In nearly seven years at this organization, I have never found another security tool that has gotten more positive feedback and generated fewer help tickets from our users. Even the people who usually need their hand held through everything were able to get started and use the service on their own. We love Duo! ” Thomas A. Martin · Senior Systems Administrator, Arbor Networks “Getting Duo up and running with our Juniper SSL VPN was fast, easy, and painless. our users have had no problems since we rolled it out.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Services, Two-factor authentication
Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website with Google Authenticator and Twilio SMS
www.twilio.com
on 04/10/2013
Excerpt: Authentication to an existing Python application. If you are looking for software you can purchase and plug in, you should take a look at Authy. Why Two-Factor Authentication? Back in the day, it used to be that enforcing a strong password policy was sufficient to prevent unauthorized access into your user’s accounts. (Ah, those were the days, when kids were polite and respected their elders). However, as the security landscape continues to evolve, it is becoming clear that a strong password policy is not enough any more.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Security, Two-factor authentication
Evernote: We're Adding Two-Factor Authentication
www.informationweek.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Evernote, after suffering a data breach that caused the company to reset passwords for all of its 50 million users, announced that it plans to adopt two-factor authentication as quickly as possible. "We were already planning to roll out optional two-factor authentication to all of our users later this year," said Evernote spokeswoman Ronda Scott via email. "We are accelerating those plans now.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Notetaking, Security, Story, Two-factor authentication
Excerpt: Evernote, after suffering a data breach that caused the company to reset passwords for all of its 50 million users, announced that it plans to adopt two-factor authentication as quickly as possible. "We were already planning to roll out optional two-factor authentication to all of our users later this year," said Evernote spokeswoman Ronda Scott via email. "We are accelerating those plans now.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Notetaking, Security, Story, Two-factor authentication
