{"id":261327,"date":"2018-05-24T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=261327"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T07:30:21","slug":"facebook-makes-two-factor-authentication-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/261327-facebook-makes-two-factor-authentication-easier.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook makes two-factor authentication easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has made it easier to enable two-factor authentication and has removed the need for a phone number to set it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/148233965247823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Two-factor authentication<\/strong><\/a> provides users with an additional layer of security on top of a username and password.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Facebook used a phone number as a second layer of security, where it sent an SMS which was needed to log in from a new device.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now redesigned its two-factor authentication to use third-party authentication apps like Google Authenticator and Duo Security &#8211; on both desktop and mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook product manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/facebook-security\/two-factor-authentication-for-facebook-now-easier-to-set-up\/10155341377090766\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scott Dickens said<\/strong><\/a> they improved two-factor authentication in two ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is easier to enable two-factor authentication with a streamlined setup flow that guides users.<\/li>\n<li>It has expanded the ways in which users can secure their accounts, without registering a phone number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users can turn on two-factor authentication by visiting facebook.com\/settings and clicking the \u201cSecurity and Login\u201d tab.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/258033-facebook-alternatives-that-respect-your-privacy.html\">Facebook alternatives that respect your privacy<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has increased the number of ways users can secure their account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,38240],"class_list":["post-261327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-two-factor-authentication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261327"}],"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=261327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261405,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261327\/revisions\/261405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}