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250,000 HACKED USER ACCOUNTS: TWITTER TO INTRODUCE TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION


250,000 HACKED USER ACCOUNTS: TWITTER TO INTRODUCE TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

Following the recent attack on twitter over the weekend which resulted in compromise
of over 250,000 users accounts, twitter is on the look-out for a competent software
engineer to implement additional security layer for user logins to the social media cum micro-blogging website.

Two-factor (multi-factor) authentication is a way of adding additional layer of security in addition
to the regular username and password combination, usually in the form of additional random
token generated by a hardware or software, or even a message received via SMS which is valid for a short period of time and cannot be chosen by the user or a potential hacker.

It has become obvious that multi-factor authentication is the way to go in handling the simple but ever important authentication question of "who are you" we encounter on on web login forms every now and then!
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