To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts, Facebook has added an optional verification step to its log-in process.
The new security feature, called Login Approvals, is a form of two-factor authentication, as it adds a step to the basic user name and password verification.
With Login Approvals, Facebook users can now opt to have the company require that a one-time numeric code be entered along with their user name and password when a log-in attempt is made from devices that users haven't saved as approved ones.
Facebook sends the numeric code as an SMS message to the mobile phone the user has linked to the account, the company said Thursday in a blog post.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216669/
The new security feature, called Login Approvals, is a form of two-factor authentication, as it adds a step to the basic user name and password verification.
With Login Approvals, Facebook users can now opt to have the company require that a one-time numeric code be entered along with their user name and password when a log-in attempt is made from devices that users haven't saved as approved ones.
Facebook sends the numeric code as an SMS message to the mobile phone the user has linked to the account, the company said Thursday in a blog post.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216669/