Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides an extra layer of security for online accounts like banking or emails. It combines a traditional password with a different device you have access to, such as a ...

Which is better, two-factor authentication or two-step verification? How can I protect my Apple ID against hackers? While it seems that celebrities get their Apple ID/iCloud accounts hacked on a ...

Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

You know you should use two-factor authentication everywhere you can, but there’s also “two-step” authentication, which may come off like the same thing. They’re really not. Here’s the difference, and ...

Following in the footsteps of Google and other services, Dropbox this weekend enabled two-factor authentication to bring enhanced security to its users. As with Google’s implementation, Dropbox’s ...

If you have two-factor authentication set up on your Twitter account (which you absolutely should and if you don’t you should set up right now), then now you don’t have to have to use SMS to get ...

Two-factor authentication may not be as sexy as the latest Android phone, but the technology is capturing news headlines, and deservedly so. Last week, Microsoft began rolling out this security tool ...

Google strives to push all its users to start using two-factor authentication (2FA), which can block attackers from taking control of their accounts using compromised credentials or guessing their ...

In “LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches” (3 March 2023), I talked about how I decided to move my two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from Authy to 1Password and how the process ...

Two-factor authentication, otherwise known as 2FA, is a log-in process that requires certain digital account owners to present two forms of ID verification rather ...