{"id":217272,"date":"2017-06-28T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=217272"},"modified":"2017-06-28T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:52:40","slug":"pinterest-rolls-out-two-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/217272-pinterest-rolls-out-two-factor-authentication.html","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest rolls out two-factor authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinterest\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pinterest.com\/en\/new-ways-protect-your-pinterest-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> it is rolling out two-factor authentication for all accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Two-factor authentication allows users to add an additional layer of security to their account, meaning an attacker will be unable to log in to a victim&#8217;s account with only their password.<\/p>\n<p>Users who activate the feature will be sent a verification text to their mobile number when they log in from a new device, or they can choose to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/authy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Authy<\/strong><\/a> mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Pinterest said two-factor authentication will be available within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/216764-how-malware-gets-inside-your-apps.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How malware gets inside your apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinterest is rolling out two-factor authentication for all accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[44158,9780,463],"class_list":["post-217272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-authentication","tag-pinterest","tag-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217272"}],"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=217272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217302,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217272\/revisions\/217302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}