two-factor authentication
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You Can Now Protect Your Google Accounts With A Physical Key
Two-step authentication is super important. It’s also super annoying. To ease the pain — and make logins even more secure — Google will now let you use a USB security key to verify yourself instead of having a code sent to your phone.
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Twitter’s Two-Step Verification Just Got As Good As Google’s
We spent a long time begging Twitter for two-step verification, and we were pumped to finally get it. Now, an update to the service’s Android and iOS apps are taking it a step further, and making it even better.
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Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication
Yesterday, Twitter finally implemented two-factor authentication. It was enough to prompt Kim Dotcom to claim that he invented the security technique.