One-time SMS codes are widely used as the second checkpoint in two-factor authentication (2FA) to sign into everything from banking apps to email accounts. As I've written before, though, SMS is one ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has emerged as a critical tool to prevent cybercrime. This functionality provides an additional layer of security beyond traditional password-based authentication. By ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides an extra layer of security for online accounts like banking or emails. It combines a traditional password with a different device you have access to, such as a ...

Two-factor authentication increases the security of accounts by introducing an additional step in the login process that requires entering a one-time code. For GitHub users, account takeovers can lead ...

Passwords are the worst. They can be cracked, forced open in attacked, guessed, reused, sold in data breaches, created with weak practices and stored poorly even when the best password managers are ...

These days, two-factor authentication (2FA) isn't a nice-to-have feature, it's a must-have. Hacks and data leaks are common, and if you take security seriously, you should always enable 2FA on all ...

The latest bizarre move of Elon Musk’s Twitter ownership weakens the security of millions of accounts. On February 17, Twitter announced plans to stop people using SMS-based two-factor authentication ...

Instagram has finally added proper secure authentication to its iPhone app. Previously, you could have Instagram send you a one-time login code via SMS every time you signed in. But SMS isn’t secure, ...

GitHub is warning users that they will soon have limited functionality on the site if they do not enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts. In emails sent to GitHub users on Christmas ...

Late on Friday, Twitter announced a new policy that will remove text message two-factor authentication (2FA) from any account that won’t pay for it. In a blog post, Twitter said that it will only ...

Facebook discontinued its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code generator for the unversed. So, if you are lost on how to log into Facebook without a code generator, this post is for you. Given the ...

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 ...