Apple to step up iCloud security

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Kevin Lancaster

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Apple to step up iCloud security

Apple Inc is planning additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts in the face of the recent celebrity photo scandal and will aggressively encourage users to take stricter security measures
 
The iPhone maker said it plans to more aggressively encourage people to turn on the two-factor authentication in the new version of iOS, the daily reported.
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They're going to need to eliminate, or at the very least reduce, the four day waiting period before you can activate two-factor authentication.
 
Microsoft's one drive doesn't enforce 2 step verification. In fact I didn't even know it had 2-step auth before this. Does Google's service ?
 
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The 2-factor-authentication enrolment is a pain. Apple could have been a lot more verbose about security and most people using a standard install of iPhone/Mac would not even know that their photos are synced to iCloud. If Apple did not allow brute-force attacking the find-my-phone service, this would have not happened in the first place.
 
zippy said:
Microsoft's one drive doesn't enforce 2 step verification. In fact I didn't even know it had 2-step auth before this. Does Google's service ?
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It offers two step.
 
My Apple ID makes use of two-step verification. Better safe than sorry. Not even Apple can reset my password.
 
zippy said:
Microsoft's one drive doesn't enforce 2 step verification. In fact I didn't even know it had 2-step auth before this. Does Google's service ?
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Google doesn't enforce it, but it's been available for quite a while now. I've been using 2 step verification with a Google authenticator since I got my Galaxy S2 in December 2011.
 
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