Archive for category Web
two factor on amazon
December 5th, 2015 by Jeanne BoyarskyI enabled two factor on many sites last year. Amazon is a bit late to the party, but they finally have two factor support. While they waited a long time, they did a good job with it. Sign up was easy. They give you a choice of an authenticator app including scanning with your device to […]
Posted: 5 December, 2015 in Web.
Tags: 2-factor, security
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griping about a “password” system
April 28th, 2015 by Jeanne BoyarskyI emailed a company today asking for my account to be linked. I did NOT ask for a password reset. What I got was an email with plain text copy of my password. Aghhhhh! That’s just asking for someone to hack my account (or all the accounts.) Passwords should be stored using a one way […]
Posted: 28 April, 2015 in Web.
Tags: security
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2-factor authentication and twitter
April 12th, 2014 by Jeanne BoyarskyI’ve had two factor for gmail enabled for two years. This morning, I set up two factor for github and some others due to Heartbleed (check if sites you use are affected), Then there was Twitter. After the other sites being straightforward, I expected the same from Twitter. Twitter did not deliver. I had to turn off two factor. I’m left […]
Posted: 12 April, 2014 in Web.
Tags: 2-factor, privacy, security, twitter
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