{"id":78512,"date":"2013-05-22T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=78512"},"modified":"2013-05-22T22:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T20:32:03","slug":"twitter-security-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78512-twitter-security-improvement.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter security improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users&#8217; accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For those who sign up, Twitter will send a six-digit code using a text message each time they sign in to Twitter.com.<\/p>\n<p>Besides their username and password, users will have to enter the code to log in as well.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. already allow two-step verification as an option.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has been criticized for not having this option, especially following recent breaches of Twitter accounts belonging to major news organizations and other companies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77482-teens-internet-plugin-foils-twitter-plot-spoilers.html\">Teen\u2019s Internet plugin foils Twitter plot-spoilers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77472-youtube-paid-channels-unveiled.html\">YouTube paid channels unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77464-dollars-for-digital-jobs-in-africa.html\">Dollars for digital jobs in Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77378-yahoo-eyes-hulu-after-failed-dailymotion-bid.html\">Yahoo eyes Hulu after failed Dailymotion bid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users&#8217; accounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":74685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,161,167,123,405],"class_list":["post-78512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78512"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78514,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78512\/revisions\/78514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}