Google soon announced that it will 'automatically turn on two-step account verification'



On May 6, 2021, local time, World Password Day, Google called on users to introduce a two-step verification process that verifies their identity through their smartphones when logging in to their accounts. We are also announcing that we will automatically enable two-step verification in the near future for users who have properly set up their accounts.



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'Passwords are the biggest threat to online security, you may not notice,' Google's senior director of product management, Mark Risher, said in a blog post on May 6. Passwords are easy to steal but hard to remember, and 66% of Americans use the same password on multiple websites. This puts your accounts on other websites at risk if your password is leaked on one of your websites.

In 2020, various data leakage incidents and hacking damages were reported, so the number of searches for 'how to increase password strength' jumped by 300%. However, even the strongest passwords can be compromised by an attacker, Richer said, 'one of the best ways to protect your account from password compromise and malicious passwords is second. It is to authenticate in the form of. '

Google has always supported two-step verification, and when a user who protects his account with two-step verification attempts to log in with a new device ...



You can verify your identity with a single tap from your smartphone.



'Signing in using a mobile device gives you a more secure authentication experience than using only a password,' Risher said.



Google will soon begin to automatically enable two-step verification for users with properly configured Google accounts. To manually enable two-step authentication, log in to your account and open 'Security' ...



Click 'Two-step verification process'.



Click 'Try it'.



Enter your password ...



If you check the device associated with your account and click 'Continue', Google will notify the device, so tap it to verify your identity and the registration for 2-step verification is complete.



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