Change your password with a text message
Posted by Unknown on Monday, May 12, 2014 | 0 comments
It comes on the heels of the Heartbleed Bug scandal, which has potentially compromised millions of users’ personal information and bank data. Twitter, which is pushing out an awareness campaign for users, is hopeful that this will help their hundreds of millions of users maintain their accounts without fear of being hijacked by third parties.
“The new process lets you choose the e-mail address or phone number associated with your account where you’d like us to send your reset information. That way, whether you’ve recently changed your phone number, or are traveling with limited access to your devices, or had an old e-mail address connected to your Twitter account, you’ve got options,” Twitter said in a blog post.
The move also follows what Google began doing in 2010, when the company issued new measures that would help secure logins, giving histories of logins and other information to help users see if their accounts had been breached.
“We’re aware that many people reuse the same passwords across multiple sites. And when any of these sites are compromised, stolen passwords could be used to access your account on Twitter,” Twitter continued.
The new measures by Twitter should help users know when their account has been accessed by someone other than themselves. According to the company, it will ask a user a secret question about their account before giving access. An e-mail notification will also be sent when an anomaly has been detected by the San Francisco-based company.
Twitter has said recently that security for its users is a great concern and by adding this new tool, it hopes that it will keep accounts safer.
