How Google’s 2FA enrollment will work
What does “appropriately configured” mean? According to Jonathan Skelker, product manager for account security at Google, the term means “users that already have recovery information on their accounts, such as a phone number or [secondary] email.” Google’s Security Checkup page already communicates whether 2FA is set up on your account, and will presumably be the way by which you’ll know if you need to set up 2FA, and how you’ll do it.
Google already allows you to import your passwords stored in other browsers or password managers into Google’s own Password Manager. Google also can generate its own passwords, and use them when you sign up for a new service or site via Chrome. Google’s Password Checkup feature, for the web as well as for Android, also automatically checks your passwords against known password breaches. It’s not good enough to use our tips on how to create strong passwords; you have to know when your passwor
Google to turn on two-step verification by default
Google is making a move that will probably vastly improve the security of millions of online accounts.
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2021-05-06 14:05:25 UTC
When someone asks me about improving their online security, I tell them to enable two-factor authentication (2FA). By introducing another security element besides your password, like a Google Authenticator code, you make it orders of magnitude harder for someone to break into your online accounts, even if they get ahold of your password.Â
Most major online services, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, already offer 2FA. Soon, however, Google is making 2FA (also called two-step verification, or 2SV) on by default.Â
Google Plans to Automatically Enroll Users In Two-Factor Authentication Soon
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Security experts have been banging the drum about password managers and enabling two-factor authentication for what seems like an eternity. Probably because year after year, hordes of you keep using “123456″ and “password” to secure your shit online. Well, Google’s not having it anymore. So long as you provide a secondary email or phone number, the company will soon start automatically enabling 2FA on your Google Accounts.
The change isn’t so much an announcement, as it is a little tidbit included in an official Google blog on password security published today for World Password Day. According to Google, searches for “how strong is my password” shot up by 300% in 2020. But even if everyone used long, complicated passwords, Google says that’s not good enough, as it can encourage people to use that same, complicated-but-secure password across mu