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 ...

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 ...

WhatsApp is adding an extra security feature to help keep its more than a billion users safe from hacks. The company is rolling out two-step verification to its users worldwide. When it’s available ...

You can enable two-factor authentication on Google to provide an added layer of security if, for example, your password is compromised. Two-factor authentication ...

What is two-factor authentication, and why do experts say it's the key to better online security? Two-factor authentication—often referred to as two-step authentication and 2FA—is a method for keeping ...

One of the best pieces of security advice any computer expert can give you is to enable two-factor authentication for websites that support it. With password breaches so common nowadays, it could be ...

Online threats are constantly evolving, so it’s often difficult, even counterproductive, to compare how useful a security control is in today’s threat environment to the threat environment of a few ...

We all know that a password that's tough to crack provides protection against unauthorized intrusion into your digital accounts, but what if your user name and password are stolen? Recently, a hacker ...

After extensive breaches over the past few years, companies have been working to develop a standard to protect data transfer over the internet. Protection with a single password is a thing of the past ...

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 ...