{"id":13429,"date":"2013-04-08T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2013-04-09T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:20:44","slug":"wordpress-offers-two-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wordpress-offers-two-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Offers Two-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13435\" title=\"wordpress-blog-header\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wordpress-blog-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wordpress-blog-header.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wordpress-blog-header-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wordpress-blog-header-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The list of companies offering two-factor authentication continues to grow &#8211; hooray! This weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/en.blog.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/05\/two-step-authentication\/\">WordPress joined the growing ranks<\/a> of companies offering better protection to their customers by adding the option for people to add a 2nd factor of authentication. It bears mentioning, as you stand poised and ready to put your second authentication step into action, the difference between two-step and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/what-is-multi-factor-authentication-and-how-will-it-change-in-the-future\/\">two-factor authentication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a little reminder, a &#8220;factor&#8221; in authentication is generally considered to be one of 3 things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What you know (a password)<\/li>\n<li>What you have (a separate device such as a phone or a key fob)<\/li>\n<li>What you are (a fingerprint, for instance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WordPress&#8217;s new option lets you choose from having a code sent through an app or via SMS to your phone. Since you could theoretically be accessing your blog through your phone, this is why it&#8217;s called &#8220;two-step&#8221; authentication rather than &#8220;two-factor&#8221; authentication. This sort of thing blurs the line a bit for being true two-factor authentication, since it does not force you to use a separate device. But them&#8217;s the breaks when you&#8217;re dealing with computing &#8220;in the cloud&#8221; &#8211; it would be impractical to send millions of customers a separate dongle, for instance. Customers can use any number of different devices to access Google, Apple ID, or WordPress, from any number of locations. True two-factor authentication is not something we&#8217;re likely to see in common use for the foreseeable future. But two-step authentication is still a definite improvement over single-step authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of companies offering two-factor authentication continues to grow &#8211; hooray! 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It bears mentioning, as you stand poised and ready to put your second authentication step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[325,347],"class_list":["post-13429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-security-news","tag-two-factor-authentication","tag-wordpress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WordPress Offers Two-Factor Authentication - The Mac Security Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The list of companies offering two-factor authentication continues to grow - hooray! 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