Google wants to enable multi-factor authentication by default
Google strives to push all its users to start using two-factor authentication (2FA), which can block attackers from taking control of their accounts using compromised credentials or guessing their passwords. "Soon we'll start automatically enrolling users in 2SV if their accounts are appropriately configured," as Mark Risher, Google's Director of Product Management, Identity and User Security, revealed today. This move is meant to increase Google user accounts' security by removing the "single biggest threat" making easy to hack: passwords that are hard to remember and, even worse, easy to steal via data breaches and phishing. In the first of this process, the company will ask users already enrolled in 2FA (aka 2-Step Verification or 2SV) to confirm their identity by tapping on a Google prompt on their smartphones whenever they sign in. To enroll in two-factor authentication for your Google Account right now, go here and click the "Get Started&
