Thursday, February 18, 2016

Instagram increases security with authentication in two steps – Portal Technology

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It is important to increase the security of our private accounts and the companies themselves are working in this direction, with the two-step authentication to be widely used. Now is the turn of Instagram.

To combat hackers and unauthorized access to your account, online businesses have added a second authentication, or through a second login, or even using your smartphone. More recently, it is the turn of Instagram add this functionality.

With the combination of your mobile phone number to your Instagram account, the company can send a message with a random password via SMS, so you can enter and ensure it is the same you to access your account.

it has not revealed when this two-step authentication enters fully into force, but already there accounts in the testing phase and has begun to notify various regarding this possibility.

the Instagram was criticized for still not having adopted enhanced security, as it has over 400 million users and Facebook has adopted this feature for five years.

Source: TechCrunch



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