Following two weeks of extreme chaos at Twitter, users are joining and fleeing the site in droves. More quietly, many are likely scrutinizing their accounts, checking their security settings, and ...

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 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 ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a method that allows users to gain access to their accounts and devices by presenting two separate and distinct forms of identification. A common form of second ...

A warning to those feeling secure with two-factor authentication. If you lose or break your phone, you could lose access to your authenticator app’s essential codes…and the online accounts they’re ...

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 ...

Microsoft's public cloud computing platform, Azure, was recently targeted by a cyberattack that led to a multi-hour outage. While a newly announced mandatory two-factor authentication login ...

You’ve probably noticed a requirement to enter a temporary passcode sent through email or text message after giving your password to log into one of your online ...

You’ve heard the advice for years: Turn on two-factor authentication everywhere it’s offered. It’s long been clear that using only a username and password to ...

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 ...