{"id":14709,"date":"2013-05-31T10:16:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=14709"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:16:45","slug":"linkedin-adds-two-step-authentication-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/linkedin-adds-two-step-authentication-too\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Adds Two-Step Authentication Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LinkedInLoginFT.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14711\" title=\"LinkedIn Login\" alt=\"LinkedIn Two-Step Authentication\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LinkedInLoginFT.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LinkedInLoginFT.png 400w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LinkedInLoginFT-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LinkedInLoginFT-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn apparently didn&#8217;t want to get left out of the party, as they too have now added a second step in their authentication process. At this point I think it&#8217;s safe to say we&#8217;re getting quite close to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hundredth_monkey_effect\" target=\"_blank\">hundredth monkey effect<\/a>,&#8221; where having a second verification step will soon be considered the de facto standard for login security.<\/p>\n<p>Have you started adding a second step of verification for your various accounts where this is now available? What has been your experience with this? Did you find it to be a fairly painless experience, or did you find it to be a difficult hurdle to jump?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn apparently didn&#8217;t want to get left out of the party, as they too have now added a second step in their authentication process. At this point I think it&#8217;s safe to say we&#8217;re getting quite close to the &#8220;hundredth monkey effect,&#8221; where having a second verification step will soon be considered the de facto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[164,417],"class_list":["post-14709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-security-news","tag-linkedin","tag-two-step-authentication"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LinkedIn Adds Two-Step Authentication Too - The Mac Security Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LinkedIn apparently didn&#039;t want to get left out of the party, as they too have now added a second step in their authentication process. 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