LinkedIn gets a little safer with two-step verification
Following Twitter’s lead, LinkedIn introduced two-step verification as an optional security feature members can use to protect their accounts. LinkedIn’s new security measure emulates the two-step verification process of other sites and requires members to input a code, sent via SMS, when logging in from an unrecognized device for the first time.
“Most Internet accounts that become compromised are illegitimately accessed from a new or unknown computer,” LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira wrote on the company blog. “When enabled, two-step verification makes it more difficult for…
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