Google is so sick of you relying on passwords that the company hopes to one day ditch the authentication method altogether. But in the meantime, the search giant is introducing a simpler way of improving security online: activating two-factor authentication (2FA) on your Google accounts by default.<\/p>\n
The Big G currentlyoffers 2FA also known as two-step verification (2SV) as an optional setting, but will soon turn it on automatically.<\/p>\n
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Mark Risher, Googles director of product management, identity, and user security, announced the plan in a Thursday blog post:<\/p>\n
Today we ask people who have enrolled intwo-step verification (2SV)to confirm its really them with a simple tap via a Google prompt on their phone whenever they sign in.Soon well start automatically enrolling users in 2SV if their accounts are appropriately configured.<\/p>\n
An appropriately configured account will already include recovery information, such as a secondary email or a phone number.You can check your setup on Googles Security Checkuppage<\/p>\n
Youll also have the choice to opt-out of 2FA, but thats normally an unwise move. Studies by Microsoft found that your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use multi-factor authentication.<\/p>\n
That doesnt mean that2FA is perfect, but its a lot safer than following Kanye Wests lead and securing your account with just the password 000000.<\/p>\n
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