When Microsoft acquired PhoneFactor last fall, the handwriting was on the wall for the future of two-factor authentication for the company’s consumer cloud offerings. Now it appears that handwriting ...

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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 ...

I have long encouraged the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) or two-step verification (2SV) with online accounts whenever possible (for more about the difference, see “Two-Factor Authentication, ...

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 ...