Dropbox adds two-factor authentication to make your data more secure

With more and more of our life headed to the cloud, ensuring solid security is more important than ever. With everyone from big corporations like Sony to porn sites and online games suffering the indignity of security breaches in the past year, it is clear that one needs to be incredibly careful about how they manage their online lives. With more and more software being released that lets you access cloud applications from multiple devices, security becomes even more important.

When it comes to apps that run on all of our devices, Dropbox is one of the most important, acting as a centralised storage pool that makes accessing data easy. Following a recent breach that resulted in spamming of some users, Dropbox announced that it would be implementing a two factor authentication process. This two factor security is now live and can be turned on from the settings page on the dropbox website. When you do you get the option of either receiving a unique code via text message whenever you need to log in, or to generate the code using either Google Authenticator, Amazon AWS MFA or Windows Phone Authenticator.