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Last week a large distributed brute-force attack was launched against WordPress Blogs. One of the first to notice the attack was CloudFlare. Not only did they detect the attack they automatically protected your WordPress site if you had an account with them.

On this blog post we want to give you some details of the attack, what to do if you were compromised and things you can do going forward to protect your site from future ...

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As we've grown it's been increasingly important we maintain transparency and security. We want to make it clear and easy for anyone to report security issues to us. Today we're adding our security issues page. It details how we handle security vulnerabilities at Authy Inc and how we can be contacted if you find one.

Bottom line is:

1. We will never take any legal or intimidatory actions for reporting security issues to us.

2. We ...

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Last week we released a WordPress Plugin for Authy. A few hours after the launch we were informed by Jon Oberheide from Duo Security that our WordPress plugin contained a vulnerability. Within 10 minutes we were able to confirm the vulnerability and evaluated the security impact. Our determination was that the vulnerability was not critical and we decided not to pull off the plugin from WordPress.

We also immediately started working ...

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WordPress has made it easy for anyone to create and maintain a great site. It's so powerful that even some of the biggest site's on the web like forbes.com use it.

Last year we saw millions of passwords stolen when large sites like LinkedIn and Gamigo were compromised. Then we read through the gripping story of wired reporter Mat Honan ...

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Since we launched Authy one of the most common concerns is that no one wants to install a new app for every Two-Factor Authentication account. We built Authy to create the best Two-Factor Authentication system ever created, so naturally we had to solve that problem. Today we are happy to announce you can now add all your Google Authenticator Tokens into Authy.

We've made a number of improvements over the Google Authenticator App. ...

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We just updated our website, our pricing and our blog.

First we cleaned up our index page and our demo to make them easier to understand/navigate. But perhaps the biggest change is our new plans and pricing.

We're committed to build a long-term, self-sustainable company which provides the best two-factor authentication you've ever seen. In order to achieve this, we've monitored usage/costs over the last few months and it was clear ...

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TL:DR: Jump to the bottom to see the video and install it using:

Installation.

$ curl 'https://raw.github.com/authy/authy-ssh/master/authy-ssh' -o authy-ssh
$ sudo bash authy-ssh install /usr/local/bin
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/authy-ssh enable `whoami` <your-email> <your-country-code> <your-cellphone>
$ authy-ssh test
$ sudo service ssh restart

We love SSH here at Authy. We use it for practically everything: git, remote shell’s access, deployment scripts and even pair programming. ...

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More than a year ago I started working on an Android App to add two-factor authentication to a site I was working on. Since then Authy has changed dramatically to become a full platform that anyone can use to simply add two-factor authentication to their site or app.

We built Authy for ourselves. We wanted a two-factor authentication solution that would work accross ...

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