Linked launches two-step verification feature to protect accounts

Linked launches two-step verification feature to protect accounts

Linked network announced the launch of a two-step verification option to increase the level of security protection for user accounts, a move that comes after Twitter has launched recently after property operations increased to hack it.

The two-step verification option is turned on Linked In, go to the icon and privacy settings in the top right of the main screen, and then select Manage security settings from the bottom of the screen that appears after pressing the option Account.

Then press the green button Run Turn on in Division Two-step verification, and then press Done to the approval of the installation. Then you will be asked to provide your cell phone number and confirm the activation code you will receive in order to add a layer of protection.

After activation step verification option, when you log in to your account on Linked In and type your user name and password, will be sent a special random code to enter, and you will be asked to enter the code provided to you on your phone in order to follow-up. And you will be sent Linked message on your e-mail whenever entered on your account from a new device in order to make sure that this entry issued about you and not breached.

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Founder Mega upload: I own patented "two-step verification"

The founder of the site continues to cloud storage Megaiblod previously and megabytes currently Kim Dot Com provoking news around after the new statement, which he says he invented the two-step verification security feature and has patented.

The statement came a few hours after the announcement Twitter from the application of the two-step verification feature in its social network to increase the protection of user accounts, especially after many operations hack were exposed accounts and global news agencies.

It can be found on the landing patent from this page , which offers ordered Kim Schmitz in 1998, and he himself Kim dot com before changing his name in 2005.

The advantage of two-step verification add a layer to protect new user accounts, so send code especially on the phone user should be added after typing the correct password, and therefore even if he could hacker access to the password and access them it will be able to follow-up before it enters the code, which reached to the phone user .

And all the big companies began recently focusing on activating this feature, dot com says he did not pay him any amount of companies to meet their use of this feature, including companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and others.

  But he explained in a Tweet him that he does not have to sue all the companies that use its security advantage owns a patented, in terms that he believes the participation of knowledge and ideas for the benefit of society, but it ended Tweets possible to sue these companies as a result of what the United States has done with him.

And face his speech in Tweets to each other from Google and Facebook and Twitter that they are asked to help finance his defense before the judicial trial against him and allowed these companies to use patented free.

It is noteworthy that there are financial assets worth $ 50 million at least back to Kim Dot Com is frozen without judicial trial after the fair.

The FBI has closed famous Megaiblod site which is owned by Kim and his arrest and the freezing of funds, and then the lights came back from New service launched cloud megabytes of storage space 50 GB free with multiple security features.

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