Google is turning on two-factor authentication by default – Yahoo Finance Australia

It’s World Password Day and Google
is marking the occasion by pointing out how passwords alone aren’t enough to secure your accounts and data. The company’s placing a bigger emphasis on two-factor authentication (which it calls two-step verification or 2SV) by activating it on Google accounts by default.
People who have set up 2SV will be asked to confirm the right person is signing in to an account by tapping a prompt
on their phone. The company says it will soon start switching on 2SV for everyone…

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