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Following breaches, experts call for two-factor authentication on Twitter

Twitter is behind other Internet companies in providing the option of requiring a second form of authentication when accessing the service from an unidentified device. Such security usually involves typing in a one-time passcode sent to a mobile phone. Twitter recently had a full-time job posting for a software engineer with experience in designing and developing “user-facing security features” Last month, “extremely sophisticated” hackers breached the microblogging site’s servers and stole user names and encrypted/salted versions of passwords for 250,000 users.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2133063/following-breaches–experts-call-for-two-factor-authentication-on-twitter.html

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