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3 Ways To Secure Your Dropbox Account

Posted by on 22 November 2012

Dropbox is a popular cloud storage service where you can upload photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily and many of us have created account on it. So if  you have account on Dropbox and you may want to secure you account from hackers.Lets check, here is 3 different ways to secure your Dropbox account against unauthorized access and protect your files even if someone does gain access to your account.

Enable Two-Step Verification

Dropbox now supports two-step verification. Through enabling two-step verification, you will have to enter both your password it's mean after login your Dropbox account it will send you a security code to your mobile phone. 
You can get codes by text messages or via a smartphone application such as Google Authenticator. While enabling two-step verification, you will receive a 16-digit emergency backup code that you can use to log in if you didn't receive or generate an authentication code, for example, if you lose your phone. Keep the emergency backup code with you.

Get Email Notification 

Enable email notifications, so you will receive emails when new devices or apps connect to your account, it mean if anyone access your Dropbox account you’ll receive email notification.

Click Unlink Devices which You Dont Use

Open Security tab on your Dropbox settings page, you can see computers, phones, and tablets that have access to your Dropbox. If there are any other devices you don't use then click Unlink to remove them. Don't Unlink the device which you are using.
So make sure, you don't give up access to others.....

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1 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 26, 2012

    I use Two-Factor Authentication across a lot of my accounts. I feel a lot more secure when I can telesign into my account with an OTP. I am glad that is offered as an option for many sites, but not enough. It is worth the time and effort to have the confidence that your account won't get hacked and your personal information isn't up for grabs. It would be nice to see more of the leading companies in their respective verticals start giving their users the perfect balance between security and user experience. I know some will claim that 2FA makes things more complicated, but the slight inconvenience each time you log in is worth the confidence of knowing your info is secure. I'm hoping that more companies start to offer this awesome functionality. To me this should be a prerequisite to any system that wants to promote itself as being secure.

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