As I've noticed there have been many compromised accounts due to bad practice etc. Either way I think that ForumKorner should have a 2 Step Verification for its users so that if it was indeed bad practices the "hacker" would have to have the physical device of the user to break in. This should be a mandatory feature as it would ruin the excuse "I WAS COMPROMISED". I heard from @"EL Alex", on @Shiver's thread asking about the verified group and if they're responsible for scams when they're compromised, that the verified group has a "Location Based 2 Step"(Paraphrased). Not sure if this is true but if it is, it won't be hard to bypass with socks5 proxies in the owners location.
My fix for this is the Google Authy App: https://www.authy.com/how-use-authy-google-authenticator
"Protect your sensitive information adding a strong authentication to your online accounts. The Authy app generates secure 2 step verification tokens on your device which help you protect your accounts from hackers and hijackers by adding an additional layer of security."
I'm sure this has ran through your mind a lot @Philly and there must be a particular reason as to why you've ran forumkorner for 4 years without this, but I feel that this is necessary as it's better safe than sorry. I'm sure 2 Step authorization would've saved a lot of people money and a lot of people a ban.
If you've got any problems implementing this please let me know as I'll research into it and see what I can do to help as this is something I feel forumkorner needs to have, especially due to the mass number of deals that go on daily.
My fix for this is the Google Authy App: https://www.authy.com/how-use-authy-google-authenticator
"Protect your sensitive information adding a strong authentication to your online accounts. The Authy app generates secure 2 step verification tokens on your device which help you protect your accounts from hackers and hijackers by adding an additional layer of security."
I'm sure this has ran through your mind a lot @Philly and there must be a particular reason as to why you've ran forumkorner for 4 years without this, but I feel that this is necessary as it's better safe than sorry. I'm sure 2 Step authorization would've saved a lot of people money and a lot of people a ban.
If you've got any problems implementing this please let me know as I'll research into it and see what I can do to help as this is something I feel forumkorner needs to have, especially due to the mass number of deals that go on daily.
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Twelve said:I agree. Alot of people have been getting hacked recently, such as @acrocide , and a few others.
This would help prevent that.
Louis Vuitton said:Thank you for this suggestion, I don't even know where to begin besides saying thank you so much for recommending this. I definitely stand behind your recommendation one hundred percent, I always take advantage of two-step verification if a website offers it. If Forum Korner started offering two-step verification and if it were available to me, I would definitely be using it.
Enabling two-step authentication will stop 97% of all account hackings/jackings. It would also bring some more enhanced security to the website.
Thank you.
Emoji said:Lmao, it's weird that I was going to suggest this idea.
Same reason of concept, sythe gave me the idea of implementing this on to this forum
I support
Louis Vuitton said:To the people saying that a location based security lockout feature would offer good protection, it somewhat does, it does offer more security than just having nothing, however I do not recommend the location based security feature as you can easily use the person's same city/state sock5 from vip72 or a similar service and get into the persons account easily.
I do recommend Authentication application because you will have to have psychical access to the assigned device to access the account.
This is a great security feature which I see is a must have for all website, I stand behind this one hundred percent.
Satan said:A code being sent to the physical device is the only 2FA that I'd recommend.
Satan said:Sure, I'm all for it so I don't have to see someone making a new post every 24 hours because their Yahoo had the same password as their Instagram and Facebook.