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The last year has been full of security breaches that have shown the importance of having strong safeguards for our data. As we put more personal and private information in the cloud, there are ever more avenues of attack to reach the things we’d like to keep to ourselves.
One popular defense you can use to bolster data security on most services is two-factor authentication. Basically, it lets you force an app accessed on a PC to verify that it’s actually you trying to sign in by reaching out on the computer that’s always on you: your smartphone.
Most major implementations of two-factor authentication send you a randomly generated six-digit code to enter in the app on your PC, with some

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Apple Adds More Security To iMessage And FaceTime With Two-Factor Authentication

Apple has improved the security of FaceTime and iMessage, its voice/video and multimedia chat communication tools. The services received two-factor authentication today as an option for users to enable, meaning that even if someone uses their Apple ID email and password to enable iMessage or FaceTime on a new device, they’ll still need to use a PIN from an existing trusted device to gain access to those services.
You may recognize the system from iCloud’s two-factor authentication, or if you’ve tried to set up Keychain to keep your passwords in sync between Apple devices. If you’ve previously enabled two-factor for iCloud, it’ll also be enabled to FaceTime and iMessage. The additional level of protection applied to these services helps ensure that people will have a harder time grabbing potentially private images from your iMessage history, or pretending to be you via online communication methods.
Two-step comes into play when users log out of an account on their device and try to log back in, as well, meaning you’ll have to get that trusted device out should you temporarily disable your account on the device, or in some cases if you run a system update or switch SIMs.
This is a good step for Apple, and hopefully an indication that it intends to roll out two-step security to all of its services in good time.
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