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 ...

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 ...

Are passwords passé? A couple of weeks ago, the “Seattle Post-Intelligencer” ran an Associated Press story that described various multi-factor authentication schemes, such as password-plus-biometric ...

More and more companies are requiring multi-factor authentication internally, yet data breaches are on the rise. Is MFA still the best way to protect our online accounts? When the IBM PC was new, I ...

You did everything right and secured your account with multi-factor authentication, but now you've managed to lock yourself out. Here's how to escape this predicament. Since my start in 2008, I've ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — This story is personal for 2 Wants To Know. Last night, my phone started buzzing and dinging at 1:15 am. One after another, there was a message from my bank about a special code to ...

Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but it was easy to miss in the platform’s sea of red alerts. OK ...

Today’s relentless online criminals have made it necessary to not only employ multifactor authentication in securing IT networks and apps, but to make sure that such authentication can also be ...

Adding two-factor authentication (2FA) to your Fortnite account adds a layer of security beyond just your password. You’ve almost definitely seen two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication elsewhere ...