After a recent security issue with couple of popular WordPress plugins, we are again reminded that hackers never sleep and we should not forget to additionally protect our precious sites with available technology.
I found three plugins that add a second level of protection when logging into your WordPress blog, either through mobile apps, email, SMS or some other way.
I expect plugins like this to rise in popularity soon or even become a part of the core. We are soon adding similar support to our ManageWP.com users as well.
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/2stepauth-for-wordpress/
is a similar plugin which adds 2nd level of Authentication for WordPress for free. To describe 2StepAuth in brief: after entering right login credentials, the user has to validate himself using one of 3 ways: SMS Verification, Backup Codes or Email Verification to gain access to his/her blog.
I guess you can add it to your article too.
Hi, you could include https://www.shieldpass.com to your 2nd factor WordPress plugin list above. Its actually more secure than those mentioned as it can prevent man in the middle attacks on the network or even the operating system itself by being able to encode transaction specific information into the challenge response. With those authentication methods its game over if the hacker has electronic access to the users operating system or phone. Of course they are better than basic username / passwords.