{"id":5587,"date":"2012-08-07T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:14:47","slug":"please-turn-on-two-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/please-turn-on-two-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Turn on Two-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/google-two-step-authentication\/\">Matt Cutts<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/232850563082104832\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/google-two-step-authentication\/\"><p>You can use Google Authenticator to do two-factor authentication with <a href=\"http:\/\/helpdesk.lastpass.com\/security-options\/google-authenticator\/\">LastPass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/google-authenticator\/\">WordPress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/mfa\/virtual_mfa_applications\/\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/ga_login\">Drupal<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.dreamhost.com\/Enabling_Multifactor_Authentication\">DreamHost<\/a>, or even use a <a href=\"http:\/\/static.yubico.com\/var\/uploads\/pdfs\/Howto_GmailYubiKey.pdf\">YubiKey<\/a> device. There&rsquo;s even a <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/google-authenticator\/\">Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)<\/a> so you can add two-factor authentication to any PAM-enabled application. That means you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnxsolutions.com\/security\/two-factor-ssh-with-google-authenticator.html\">Google Authenticator to add two-factor authentication to SSH<\/a>, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s pretty neat that the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-authenticator\/id388497605?mt=8\">Google Authenticator app<\/a> works without a network connection.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-09-21): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siegel\/status\/249140562177978368\">Rich Siegel<\/a> reminds us to unregister any authenticator apps before upgrading to a new phone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cutts (via Daniel Jalkut): You can use Google Authenticator to do two-factor authentication with LastPass, WordPress, Amazon Web Services, Drupal, and DreamHost, or even use a YubiKey device. There&rsquo;s even a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) so you can add two-factor authentication to any PAM-enabled application. That means you can use Google Authenticator to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-31T21:29:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"81177e83-e41e-4bf9-8f0c-28a3282a8328","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-03T18:14:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AgRd-g-QeS_mPDCijKCqDKA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2027,31,26,48,2090],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google-authenticator","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-security","tag-two-factor-authentication-2fa"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6091,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}