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 ...

Two-factor authentication is the best protection against any of those, plus so much more. I'll explain what it is and why you should enable it whenever possible. Sometimes called 2-factor ...

If you haven’t seen your data exposed in a major data breach within the last five years alone, you haven’t been paying attention. Billions of people worldwide have lost their data many times over. 26 ...

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 ...

The internet has always been a place where you need to be careful about how and with whom you share your personal information. But as we live more of our lives online and more of the services upon ...

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 ...

Twitter announced Friday that as of March 20, it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-based two-factor authentication if they pay for a Twitter ...

Increased online fraud and new industry regulations are driving companies to search for stronger authentication methods. The problem is there’s little agreement on the best authentication method or ...

Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. The change will take place on March 20, CNN ...

Here is Elon Musk‘s latest cash-generating idea for Twitter, or at least an attempt to incrementally reduce operating expenses: Next month, the service will restrict access to the simplest form of two ...

Elon Musk was right: Text messages are not the most secure way to protect your account. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology writer for The New York Times. Twitter recently ...

Twitter announced yesterday that as of March 20, it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-based two-factor authentication if they pay for a ...