{"id":17348,"date":"2025-02-05T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/?p=17348"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T05:10:09","slug":"protect-against-hackers-with-two-factor-authentication-for-mdaemon-malaysia-webmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2025\/02\/05\/protect-against-hackers-with-two-factor-authentication-for-mdaemon-malaysia-webmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Against Hackers with Two-factor Authentication for MDaemon Webmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you may have heard countless stories of businesses suffering data breaches because a bad actor was able to guess a user&#8217;s email password. And while I certainly recommend using strong passwords, it&#8217;s more important than ever that businesses bolster their email security by requiring users to use two-factor authentication. This is especially true as even some of the strongest passwords have been exposed in hacking incidents and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published on the dark web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two-factor authentication (2FA) makes it harder for hackers to compromise an email account. Here are some examples of how it helps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It requires a second verification step\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 In addition to your password, 2FA requires a second piece of information, such as a code sent to your phone, a fingerprint, or a verification app. Even if a hacker steals your password, they won\u2019t be able to log in without the second factor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It helps protect against phishing\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Even if you accidentally provide your password to a phishing site, a bad actor still won\u2019t be able to access your email without the 2FA code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For more, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mdaemon.com\/protect-against-hackers-with-two-factor-authentication-for-mdaemon-webmail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you may have heard countless stories of businesses suffering data breaches because a bad actor was able to guess a user&#8217;s email password. And while I certainly recommend using strong passwords, it&#8217;s more important than ever that businesses bolster their email security by requiring users to use two-factor authentication. This is especially true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-updates-microdium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17349,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions\/17349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}