two step verification

How to set up two-step verification for Dropbox

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Aug 26, 2012 a 7:25 pm

Popular cloud storage solution, Dropbox has begun enabling two-step verification for their accounts, which means in addition to your password (something you know), they send an additional access code to your phone, or let you generate a time-based code with a mobile app like Google Authenticator (something you own). Although no security scheme is unbreakable, two-factor authentication is absolutely better than one. And if you keep personal data in Dropbox, you're absolutely going to want to use it.

Dropbox releases two-step verification beta, rolling out to all accounts soon

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Aug 26, 2012 a 5:20 pm

The latest Dropbox beta adds support for two-step verification, and what's more -- Dropbox will be rolling out two-step verification to all accounts over the next few days. Similar to Google's two-step verification, in addition to your password (something you know), Dropbox will send an additional access code to you via text message to your phone, or allow you to generate something using an authenticator app, like Google Authenticator, on your iPhone or other mobile device (something you have).

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How to set up Gmail's 2-step verification with Mail on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 a 3:58 am

After the news of Mat Honan's horrible experience of getting hacked, many of you are probably (and if not, should be!) taking extra precautions with your accounts, passwords, and general outlook on digital security. One of the big mistakes that Mat said he made was to not setting up Gmail's 2-step verification. Admittedly, this is a somewhat annoying security measure, but it's totally worth it.

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