Hot on the heels of Facebook introducing login notifications to notify users any suspicious activity on their Facebook page, and several other companies, enabling two step login process to ensure user security, Yahoo has taken the security feature a notch higher.
To make users account more secure, Yahoo has decided to kill the concept of fixed passwords completely. In its place, the user has introduced a new “on demand” password system that lets users login with individual generated short four-password that company’s sent to their phone.
Confirming the news, Yahoo’s chief information security officer, Alex Stamos said, the feature will be rolled out by the end of the year. In order to activate the feature, the user will have to initially log-in to their Yahoo account applying original password. Users will then be given an option via settings to to turn on the on-demand password and then get their phone number registered.
Next time, when users try to log-in, ‘send my password’ button will appear in the password space and the company will send a four-character password to user phone.
Since digital privacy is one of the hottest topics discussed and debated in the recent years, startsups in the same area are also taking advantage among users. Last week, for instance, Cyber security start-up enSilo raised a seed funding from Carmel ventures. Several months back, Light Cyber, a cyber security firm, had received USD 10 million.
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