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YOU CAN NEVER keep your accounts too safe. Accounts do get compromised, security breaches occur and most of the time, we rely on simple passwords.
Yet there is one useful way to improve your account security that you mightn’t be aware of. The only thing you need is your phone.
What is two-step verification?
Passwords on their own aren’t particularly secure. While you’re recommended to come up with as strong a password as possible,
Two-step verification (or two-step authentication depending on how you want to phrase it) adds an extra layer of security to your account, by making use of your phone on top of your existing email/username and password requirement.
Its main purpose is to prevent anyone from remotely accessing (or hacking) your account by making them require your phone as well, a difficult task considering that most hacks or security breaches happen remotely.
Great, but how does it work?
In this case, we will use Google as an example with all services supporting the feature follow the same basic template.
To start off, you will need to go into security, which you can find when you click on account under your profile, and you will see the option for two-step verification.
From there, it’s a matter of entering in your number, choosing whether to receive an SMS message or voice call with your code, and entering in the code you receive.
Once you’ve done that, you will be asked if this is your own personal computer – it’s strongly recommended you use your home computer instead of work – and then to officially confirm your decision.
And that’s it. You get a new code sent to you every time you require one to keep your accounts safe.
Who supports it?
Of the most popular services out there, Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, Google, Twitter, Evernote, PayPal, Steam, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Wordpress, Amazon, and Tumblr are just a few that offer two-step verification (Details on how to activate each one is included in each link).
This isn’t an extensive list by any means, but it shows that many of the services you already use it. They may offer different variations of the same thing, either by different names, different length codes or sometimes text, but ultimately, it’s something you should have activated.
Never change joe……never change
@Sean Mc Cabe: hahaha class Joe…..
Is Monaghan the county bordering Londondelhi?
@Alex Marquis: take a bow
@Alex Marquis: You’ll be in the running for Comment of the Year with that one. Terrific.
He does absolutely love the sound of his own voice, but full credit to Brolly for this one. The Councillors of Monaghan should have known far better than to tangle with their intellectual superior. Maybe they should just focus on a better matchday product in their town.
Hope the apology is printed in the Calcutta Herald also!
Outstanding, love it!
I think Brolly was trying to curry favour with the local politicians.
Sorry.
@Alex Marquis: Good..very good.
@Alex Marquis: Should have gone home through Tandoorigee….
I’m from Monaghan and Joe is right. The council are wrong here.
Thats a headline i probably thought I’d never read.
Love Joe Brolly
Cmon the joe ,wears his heart on his sleeve and says it like it is ,he’s very sadly missed on the Sunday game as well ,we have too many humourless snowflakes looking to be offended
@James Delaney: Maybe some people think he’s a K#0b? Just a thought
@Bennett blaster: Exactly. And that’s what RTE Sports analysis has always excelled at. Bit of divisiveness and niggle.
Bring him back, he did no wrong
Nearly sure it was renamed Kolkata in 2001, Calcutta not Monaghan……..
Interesting to note the Irish republican not using the correct name for the city and, instead, using the colonial name for it. I assume he also refuses to use Cobh and Dún Laoghaire and sticks with Queenstown and Kingstown.
@Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa: Wha ?
@John A. Dixon: The name of the city is Kolkata, Brolly referred to it by its colonial name of Calcutta. Cobh and Dún Laoghaire are Irish towns that used to have colonial names and we would not appreciate people using them now.
@Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa: He might not have an encyclopaedia of things to be offended about.
@v39e84kK: I find your repetition offensive
The offendkin are detestable.
Are there any ‘black holes of Clones’ that the Council needs to fill in? Twinning with Kalkata City Council might be an auspicious project.
@Garreth Byrne: I think the build houses far quicker in Calcutta
Monaghan County Council….. They the lads that were on prime time demanding envelopes full of cash for favours etc….? Nods head..
Well he’s a dam sight better than that clown Cantwell !
@Alan McDonagh: that’s not nice Alan. BTW, If you are going to call someone a clown make sure you get your spellings right or someone might think you are a clo..
Gaa supporters use our area as a free car park. Had to park in an adjacent estate last week. A real nuisance and not a thing done about it. F the gaa and it’s attitude to its supporters and to local residents.
@alan: presumably if its free to park there then its a council issue rather than GAA?
Joe loves the oul Queen’s shilling when it suits him.
I have attended many Ulster finals in Clones and it is without doubt the worst and most unsightly venue I have ever seen.
Never been to Calcutta but I doubt if its in this lamentable state. Not often I agree with Brolly but “roll on Casement”
Sweet dreams. By Annie Lennox could explain all.
I think their twined!
Love Joe. But is it a bit derogatory to be talking about places like Kolkatta or Bangladesh like that?
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