January 31st, 2013

Authy Brings Two-Factor Authentication To Self-Hosted WordPress Sites (Updated)

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If you run your own WordPress site, chances are you are using a pretty secure password to keep hackers from posting random stories to your blog. Still, even the best password isn’t as good as using Gmail-style two-factor authentication, but unless you are a programmer, chances are you don’t have the expertise to make this happen. Authy, which offers two-factor authentication as a service, is… → Read More

November 28th, 2012

CloudFlare Now Uses Authy’s Two-Factor Authentication To Keep Its Users Safe

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CloudFlare, the popular website security and CDN service, suffered an embarrassing security breach earlier this year when the company’s CEO’s Gmail account was hijacked, giving the hacktivist group UGNazi access to a customer’s account and the service. Even though CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince used Gmail’s two-factor authentication, the hackers used some smart social engineering to work around… → Read More

August 2nd, 2012

Y Combinator Backed Startup Authy Wants To Help You Prevent A Dropbox Style Security SNAFU

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In response to a security breach, Dropbox promised to add an optional new layer of security known as two factor authentication. If you want to add two factor authentication to your own app but don’t know where to start, you’re in luck: Authy is a YCombinator backed startup launching today that makes it easy to add optional two factor authentication to your application. You just add some API calls… → Read More