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November 28, 2012 10:00 pm GMT

CloudFlare Now Uses Authys Two-Factor Authentication To Keep Its Users Safe

authyCloudFlare, the popular website security and CDN service, suffered an embarrassing security breach earlier this year when the company's CEO's Gmail account was hijacked, giving the hacktivist group UGNazi access to a customer's account and the service. Even though CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince used Gmail's two-factor authentication, the hackers used some smart social engineering to work around this. After this incident, CloudFlare promised to soon offer two-factor authentication for its own login system as well and today, the company is launching this new system.

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