Tumblr users now have another reason to tumble more in joy.
The blogging platform now added a security feature that would ensure user-data protection, the company said on Monday. Besides, who would want their accounts hacked and used for malicious activities?
The two-factor authentication security feature can now be found in the Account Settings section of Tumblr. The TFA makes it harder for outside elements to access the user's dashboard.
Wondering what such security feature is, the method involves two stages that would verify and prove the identity of the users. Users need only two things for the two-factor authentication to work.
"One key is your password, the other key is your cellular phone, and you need both to access your Tumblr Dashboard," Tumblr said in its blogpost.
The majority of two-factor or multi-factor authentications entail its users to type in their password, after which the website comes up with a random code to be sent to the mobile phone, or sometimes another device, of the users. Users can only log into their account if they type in the given code back into the website.
Though there's no such thing as a 100-percent secure site, the added security feature will still give stalkers, hackers and other malicious elements a harder time to have unauthorized access of the account and violate the privacy of the users.
Just for further clarification, the security feature won't stop malicious attacks, though. Rather, it ensures more security, less vulnerability from outside elements.
Tumblr gives a complete instruction on how to set-up the TFA in its blog. However, it strongly advises not to disable TFA.
"Your account is far less likely to get compromised if you've enabled Two-Factor Authentication. But if you must, we'll ask you to enter your account password to make sure it's really you. You'll then be able to log in to your account without the extra verification step. If you would like to re-enable it at any point, you'll have to go through the aforementioned setup process again," Tumblr says.
Lately, TwoFactorAuth.org mentioned Tumblr as the only social service lacking of the two-factor authentication. TwoFactorAuth lists services that support such authentication, including the methods used like Google Auth and SMS, among others.
The blogging platform, owned by Yahoo, suggested making use of Google Authenticator for iOS and Android as an authenticator app for generating a single-use code. Such feature now brings the blogging platform up to the ranks of Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Dropbox.
