When two-factor authentication was first introduced, it revolutionized device security and helped make identity theft much more difficult – at the slight cost of minor inconvenience added to logins.

A talented hacker might be able to easily crack the password for your bank account – especially if it falls under the easy-to-guess formula of your first name and last initial. However, if you have ...

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 ...

Only users who pay a monthly fee for Twitter's subscription service will get to use text message authentication in order to keep their accounts secure, the social media company says. Two-factor ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Using 2FA to protect your accounts is a lot safer than using just passwords, especially if you use a separate ...

While some people may be lazy or unoriginal and use weak passwords that are easy to break, strong passwords aren’t necessarily indestructible. They can be intercepted, keylogged, or leaked in large ...

Google software engineer Grzegorz Milka recently took to the stage at the Usenix Enigma 2018 security conference in California where he said that less than ten percent of Gmail users protect their ...

These scams rely on tricking consumers into believing they are interacting with a trusted vendor. Here’s how vendors can prevent the scams. My 11 ways to hack 2FA column a few weeks ago continues to ...

Modern application development has wrestled with numerous shortcomings in the security paradigm. Blockchain can mitigate several of those shortcomings, but it requires devising means to integrate with ...