{"id":97,"date":"2011-02-11T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-02-11T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:38:07","slug":"the-google-two-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"The Google Two-Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html\">two-factor authentication will be available<\/a> for users to log into their Google Apps \/ GMail accounts. Essentially, the account holder&#8217;s mobile phone is used as an authentication token; once the number is registered, the user can opt to receive a numeric authentication code via SMS or voice call, or generate it with a local application. Both the traditional password and the authentication code from the phone must be used to access the account.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tremendous step forward in security, especially for a free online service. Passwords have historically been the weak link in most network security schemes; they are often easily guessed or acquired through social engineering techniques. By requiring users to not only have a password but also have a physical token like a designated mobile phone, Google can render phishing and brute-force attacks completely impotent.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that two-factor authentication will be available for users to log into their Google Apps \/ GMail accounts. Essentially, the account holder&#8217;s mobile phone is used as an authentication token; once the number is registered, the user can opt to receive a numeric authentication code via SMS or voice call, or generate it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","category-smartphones","category-social-engineering","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}