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Passwords: easily forgotten, but also easily guessed. It\u2019s a bitter irony that minutes can be spent racking brains trying to remember whether a required security question answer is a pet\u2019s name, first school or place of birth \u2013 meanwhile a cyber-criminal is merrily typing in a person\u2019s favourite colour and relieving bank accounts of hard-earned wages.<\/p>\n
Well, now Yahoo might have made the process easier \u2013 at least when it comes to accessing email.<\/p>\n
The Californian tech giant is rolling out \u201con-demand\u201d email passwords, based around phone notifications, and eliminating entirely the need to memorise a fixed password.<\/p>\n
Yahoo Mail now offers a service similar to \u201ctwo-step verification\u201d, a security measure employed by other email providers, but the difference is the removal of the first step.<\/p>\n
The password system is opt-in and can be accessed from Yahoo Mail\u2019s landing page. Photograph: Yahoo screengrab<\/p>\n
Two step verification works by a user logging in with their usual fixed password, after which the email provider sends a unique code to their mobile phone, which is then entered on the login screen, allowing the user to access their email account.<\/p>\n Yahoo\u2019s new security process will remove the need for users to enter a fixed password first, and instead just send a four-letter password to a user\u2019s phone via text.<\/p>\n Unveiling the service at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, Yahoo\u2019s vice president of product management for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said: \u201cThis is the first step to eliminating passwords. I don\u2019t think we as an industry has done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products.\u201d<\/p>\n A blog post written by the company\u2019s director of product manager, Chris Stoner, explains the steps:<\/p>\n 1. Sign in to your Yahoo.com account.<\/p>\n 2. Click on your name at the top right corner to go to your account information page.<\/p>\n 3. Select \u201cSecurity\u201d in the left bar.<\/p>\n 4. Click on the slider for \u201cOn-demand passwords\u201d to opt-in.<\/p>\n 5. Enter your phone number and Yahoo will send you a verification code.<\/p>\n 6. Enter the code and voila!<\/p>\n The \u201con-demand\u201d password service is opt-in and currently only available in the US.<\/p>\n Also announced at the festival was Yahoo\u2019s forthcoming project on end-to-end encryption. Based on Google\u2019s alpha Chrome PGP encryption plugin, Yahoo hopes to make the service available in autumn 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Passwords: easily forgotten, but also easily guessed. It\u2019s a bitter irony that minutes can be spent racking brains trying to remember whether a required security question answer is a pet\u2019s name, first school or place of birth \u2013 meanwhile a cyber-criminal is merrily typing in a person\u2019s favourite colour and relieving bank accounts of hard-earned … Continue reading Tired of forgetting your password? Yahoo says you don’t need one any more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,71],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-forgetting-password","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tired](\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/a12ee326-ccd0-4c8d-bcf0-4855707659b7-bestSizeAvailable.png\")
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