Back at the main menu, the next step is to set a user password.

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If the user enters the wrong password several times and then is connected to the Internet, the company will locate the computer through its Internet protocol address, information that can help law enforcement agencies recover the computer, Lide said.

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The inconvenience of having to remember multiple user names, each often accompanied by a separate password, is eliminated.

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Critics of Twitter say the service is vulnerable to unauthorized messages because the company hasn't widely implemented "two-factor authentication, " an extra layer of protection to ensure a person who enters a password to a digital service is the authorized user.

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He establishes a connection to his account using a user ID and password known only to him, and the connection is secured using standard encryption technology.

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The encrypted key is what is necessary, along with the user's ID and password, to obtain access to the user's account with the bank, and it reflects information about the laptop from which the user is accessing the bank's website.

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With the database table of passwords widely available, it should be noted that most of the passwords will be broken eventually however, and so every user who has used a Gawker Media web site should change their password once Gawker is sure their systems are clean of any shells left behind by the attackers.

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Two-step verification drastically reduces the chances of someone stealing the personal information from your e-mail account because hackers would have to not only get a password and your user name, they would also have to have access to the mobile phone to which the code is sent.

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