Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You

Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by jsnell on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:33PM (#23580398)

Google Authenticator got an update a couple of months ago to allow account tranfers to a new phone.

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Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by thephyber on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:44PM (#23580474)

I was actually talking about the class of apps (Google Authenticator, Authy, Okta Verify, Yubico Authenticator), but good to know!

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Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by wonderlg on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:51PM (#23580519)

I don’t see any such option on the iPhone. Also it’s a problem if you lose your phone before you make any transfer.

The previous answer made me think a bit more seriously about those reset codes that are lying around (maybe?) my computer.

I’m a digital native and digital lives are still so hard even for me; no wonder regular people just nope out of it.

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Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by RNCTX on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:15PM (#23580947)

There's a 2 dollar app on iOS called Authenticator Plus that syncs to iCloud, that's my present solution.

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Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by discordance on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:51PM (#23581475)

How do you know that app can be trusted with your secrets? - is it OSS?

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Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by RNCTX on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:38AM (#23584178)

I don't. That's the rub with anything iPhone/iPad. Ultimately I'm at the mercy of Apple's app review process.

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Re:Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You by syntheticcorp on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:27AM (#23582193)

Duo is free and also syncs to iCloud

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