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 ...

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 ...

This article explains two-factor authentication and how to get verification apps and codes. What is Two-Factor (2FA) Authentication? Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security feature that adds ...

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 ...

I do my banking and money management with a U.S.-based global financial planning company. Like most such companies, this one is pushing its customers toward the Web for conducting transactions.

On my way home from work yesterday, I stopped at one of my bank’s automated teller machines and withdrew $40. In order to do so, I had to insert my personal ATM card and then enter a password. This ...

Nudging users toward security works. That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with ...

A Rocklin man lost his wife this year. When he found himself locked out of their email account, he decided to ask CBS13 and the Call Kurtis consumer investigative team for help. Two-step ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found patent claims directed to a method of authenticating the identity of a user performing a transaction at a terminal was patent-eligible under 35 ...

Two-Factor authentication is your last line of online defense. Using a mobile authenticator app isn't hard to set up. Yeah, it takes extra seconds to get into an ...