In its statements to TechCrunch about the features, Facebook noted that the features aren’t new, and that your number can be looked up by everyone by default because that “makes it easier to find ...

If you’d like to be sure you’re the only one posting elaborately staged yet casual selfies to your Instagram feed, there’s now a powerful new option to help you keep your account safe. In late ...

On the same day Microsoft is cutting off autofill with its Authenticator app, Proton has announced a potential alternative. Proton Authenticator is a free two-factor authentication (2FA) app available ...

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 ...

GitHub announced that two-factor authentication will be available to all users through GitHub Mobile this week. In a blog post, GitHub's Berk Veral said GitHub Mobile 2FA will be available to all ...

Millions of users have their online accounts compromised every day. Password lists are traded on the dark web, and bad actors use automated processes to try them against lots of accounts and services.

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Last month, a cybersecurity firm discovered the first-ever Android malware that came with the capability to steal the 2FA (two-factor authentication) codes generated by the Google Authenticator app.

The Vultur trojan steals bank credentials but asks for permissions to do far more damage down the line. After remaining available for more than two weeks, a malicious two-factor authentication (2FA) ...

A fake two-factor-authentication app that has been downloaded some 10,000 times from Google Play surreptitiously installed a known banking-fraud trojan that scoured infected phones for financial data ...