{"id":40801,"date":"2021-05-07T00:52:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-will-make-you-use-two-step-verification-to-login\/"},"modified":"2021-05-07T00:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:52:59","slug":"google-will-make-you-use-two-step-verification-to-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-will-make-you-use-two-step-verification-to-login\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will make you use two-step verification to login"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has marked World Password Day by declaring “passwords are the single biggest threat to your online security,” and announcing plans to automatically add multi-step authentication to its users’ accounts.<\/p>\n

A mere eight years after Intel began<\/a> promoting World Password Day as a way to raise awareness about the importance of strong passwords, Google is ready to wipe them from memory.<\/p>\n

At the 2004 RSA Conference, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates predicted<\/a> passwords would become less important in the years ahead. The Windows biz has pushed to make that happen by supporting FIDO2 security keys<\/a> for authentication and switching to token-based authentication to approve git operations on GitHub<\/a>, among other initiatives. But the password, like email, has so far defied its death watch.<\/p>\n