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Facebook Login Security Takes A Fresh New Route Via USB Key
Facebook login security has been getting easier and easier to bypass for hackers who know what they’re doing. What used to be little more than a keyword is no longer capable of keeping your account free of hacking.
Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA whistleblower, tackled that very idea when he was interviewed for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He stated that most passwords are completely useless, often being sequential numbers, the actual word “password,” or even a combination of characters which are easy for the user to remember. Many websites have updated their standards, so you need at least one upper-case letter, one lower-case letter, one number, and one special character, and at least eight characters in total to even make your password up to acceptable standards.
Snowden had suggested something similar, but combining it into a phrase based on a highly unpopular opinion. Unfortunately, determined hackers have ways around this as well, and now websites such as Facebook and Yahoo are offering the option to take internet security one step further.
Of course, accepting the extra step on Yahoo might mean you can’t use a separate application on your smartphone to access emails anymore. Some find Yahoo’s own app to be inferior to second-party email apps which manage the inbox a lot better, actually deleting emails the first time instead of making you do it twice. Yahoo has introduced the extra step most likely because their email system has been known to be one of the least secure of them all, with accounts being hacked almost regularly.
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Facebook Login Security Takes A Fresh New Route Via USB Key is an article from: The Inquisitr News
