Today, almost every website has users who log in through social media accounts like Facebook and Google. These are known as third-party login services. With a third-party service, your users don’t need to remember their passwords for all of the websites they frequent. Instead, they provide these credentials once and have them stored on that service. Many people use a single third-party service to access their email, calendar, banking information and other online services. This means that if one of those services is breached (e.g., hackers obtain user information), it would expose all of users’ accounts that use that service as well as the websites they belong to.
You need to implement several security measures to keep your login secure from hackers who try to break into your website by using weak or duplicate passwords.
Here are five hacks you should start implementing today if you want to keep your site secure from others:
Change Your Passwords Frequently
Hackers access your website by using duplicate passwords or looking for easy-to-guess credentials.
To prevent this, change your password frequently. This gives you peace of mind, knowing that you’re not opening yourself up to a possible attack. However, if you don’t want to be the only person changing their password every month or year, consider implementing a two-step authentication process.
The second step would require the user to provide an additional piece of information (e.g., text sent via email) in order for them to log in after they type their password into your form.
Use 2-Factor Authentication
One way to prevent your website from being hacked is by using 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) on your login page. This requires a second ID, like a passcode or physical key, to log into the account. When logging in with this second factor, it sends an email or text message with the secondary information that users need to enter in order to confirm their identity.
The most important part of this security measure is not the 2FA itself but rather the fact that you require a second ID before logging in. If users have 2FA enabled and lose their first ID, they can still use their other one as long as it’s not on a shared device that hackers could find and access as well. This ensures that if someone manages to get another user’s password, they won’t be able to access the account without the physical information instead of just your username and password.
Hide The Log In Button
To hide the login button, you must use a third-party login service. To do this, ensure your website has one of these services integrated. Another option is to use a plugin or widget that will block the login button.
One way to keep your login secure is not to allow visitors to use third-party services. This means they must register on your website before accessing their accounts. You could create a registration form that asks for the users email address manually using an input field along with other login credentials.
To make this form more effective, you can include verification questions. For example, suppose you want to verify that the visitor’s email address is actually theirs. In that case, you could ask them for their phone number so you can make sure it’s not a fake account before doing anything else with their information.
Password Strength
Use a strong password that’s not easy for other people to guess. Using a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols will make your password more difficult for hackers to break into. Whenever you create a new website account, never use the same password that you have used on another website.
This will prevent hackers from creating fake accounts with the same password and trying to hack into your site.
Implement Two-Factor Authentication
Implement two-factor authentication (2FA). 2FA is basically an extra layer of protection that requires users to log in via something they already possess, like their phone or a text message confirmation code sent to their phone number, before logging in successfully for the first time so users can enter their password once and login through text messages or email confirmations rather than entering passwords constantly every time they visit their account.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a mechanism to verify the identity of a user. It does this by requiring two pieces of information for entry; something that the user knows and something that they have. These can be an app or hardware, like a cell phone with a special app on it. The most popular one is Google Authenticator, but any other would also work.
Use Hashed Passwords
A hashed password is typically a string of letters and numbers that has been condensed into a shorter series of letters and numbers. As such, they are not easy to guess because they could be any combination at all so there’s no pattern to figure out. Often, these passwords are created when users provide their email addresses and then hash them with advanced mathematical algorithms. This is especially important because hackers usually try to access accounts by guessing passwords or trying different combinations of characters to crack them, for example, on social media sites like Facebook, where many people use the same password for their account on multiple websites like Gmail, Twitter, Instagram etc.
Restrict Access To Certain Websites And Apps
There are several websites you should restrict access to if you want to keep your login secure from unauthorised intruders who might try to break into your website using weak passwords and personal information obtained from other sites: banking apps, email services and anything else you use online. Your website should use roles and permissions to restrict access to different parts of the site depending on the type of user and what they should be allowed to see and do.
Conclusion
It is always essential to have a secure login for your website. A secure login can protect your data, your site and your visitors. In the end, it just makes sense to do it. That’s because there is always a chance that your website could become compromised through a hack or some other method. Remember to educate users about not re-using passwords across different sites. You should also consider using two-factor authentication for added security.