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iCloud safe: Two-factor authentication
The great iCloud Hack in the summer of 2014 was only through the weak point in the System. By stupid to try with a Brute-Force attack were hacked Accounts. You can use a really secure password and Two-factor authentication, you will be well protected. This authentication protects you against unauthorized purchases on new devices, as well as the unintended Change and the loss of the Apple ID.
- Open it again, the website to manage the Apple ID and go back to the category "password and security".
- After you have answered the security question, you will find under the point "two-step verification" Link "First steps".
- Read the instructions and warnings carefully and confirm this with "Next" and "First steps".
- Now you have to wait exactly three days. You will then receive a message via e-Mail, when the time is expired. The waiting period prevents the Hacker performs the authentication.
- Follow steps 1 to 3 after the expiry of the waiting period again. Enter via the Button "add phone number" your phone number.
- You will receive a Code via SMS, the in the Browser, you need to enter. In connection, you still have the recovery-keys. The Two-factor authentication is now complete.
- Note: if a dubious action with your Apple ID, you will receive an SMS with a Code. With this Code, you must confirm the action. The recovery key, you should print out or write down. He is in doubt to rescue your Accounts. You forget the password and key, you lose your Apple ID forever.
Two-Factor Authentication
In the next practical tip we will show you how to use your Apple ID to delete.
