{"id":198360,"date":"2017-02-11T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=198360"},"modified":"2017-02-11T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T14:09:09","slug":"whatsapp-launches-two-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/198360-whatsapp-launches-two-factor-authentication.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches two-factor authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/faq\/en\/general\/26000021\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>rolling out<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;two-step verification&#8221;, which gives users an additional layer of security for their account.<\/p>\n<p>The optional two-factor authentication will be available to users on iOS, Android, and Windows devices, and lets users create a six-digit passcode which must be used to register their phone number with WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Users are also able to designate an email address which can be used to disable the feature.<\/p>\n<p>To enable two-step verification, open WhatsApp &gt; Settings &gt; Account &gt; Two-step verification &gt; Enable.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/198208-xiaomi-redmi-4a-launched-in-south-africa-dual-sim-android-device-for-r1999.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xiaomi Redmi 4A launched in South Africa \u2013 dual-SIM Android device for R1,999<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out &#8220;two-step verification&#8221;, which gives users an additional layer of security for their account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[38240,2594],"class_list":["post-198360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-two-factor-authentication","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198362,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198360\/revisions\/198362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}