{"id":58,"date":"2012-08-16T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:14:43","slug":"what-is-two-factor-authentication-why-should-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/what-is-two-factor-authentication-why-should-you-care\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Two-Factor Authentication? Why Should You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is two-factor authentication?\u00a0 According to <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Two-Factor Authentication\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-factor_authentication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Two-factor authentication<\/strong> (TFA, T-FA or 2FA) is an approach to <a title=\"Authentication\" href=\"\/wiki\/Authentication\">authentication<\/a> which requires the presentation of two or more of the three authentication factors: &#8220;something the user knows&#8221;, &#8220;something the user has&#8221;, and &#8220;something the user is&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are three generally recognized factors for authentication: something you know (such as a password), something you have (such as a hardware token or cell phone), and something you are (such as your fingerprint). Two-factor authentication requires the system to use two of these.<\/p>\n<p>Why should you care?\u00a0 For extra security, having two or more of the mentioned security factors for authentication helps to make your login more secure.<\/p>\n<p>For email purposes, currently only Google&#8217;s Gmail service is the only major webmail provider that offers this option, although Microsoft Hotmail&#8217;s forum moderators recently thought differently.\u00a0 An <a title=\"Microsoft HOtmail Forum Clueless About Two-Factor Authentication\" href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/none\/301450-microsoft-hotmail-forum-clueless-about-two-factor-authentication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interesting article <\/a>by <a title=\"Fahmida Y. Rashid\" href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/author-bio\/fahmida-y.-rashid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fahmida Y. Rashid<\/a> outlines the questions asked of the support forum regarding Microsoft Hotmail&#8217;s authentication with some surprising responses.\u00a0 It only took 3 weeks for an informed response to be posted.<\/p>\n<p>So now you know what two-factor authentication is, shock and awe your friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is two-factor authentication?  According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>Two-factor authentication (TFA, T-FA or 2FA) is an approach to authentication which requires the presentation of two or more of the three authentication factors: &#8220;something the user knows&#8221;, &#8220;something the user has&#8221;, and &#8220;something the user is&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>There are three generally recognized factors for authentication: something you know (such as a password), something you have (such as a hardware token or cell phone), and something you are (such as your fingerprint). Two-factor authentication requires the system to use two of these. <\/p>\n<p>Why should you care?  For extra security, having two or more of the mentioned security factors for authentication helps to make your login more secure.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,5,9,10],"tags":[19,23,27,29],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-and-non-specific-topics","category-office-windows-powerpoint","category-security-2","category-all-things-geeky","category-learn-how-to-use-your-softwarehardware","tag-gmail","tag-hotmail","tag-outlook","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}