When you boil it down to basics, there are three ways to authenticate someone: something they know, something they have, or something they are. "Something they know"—also known as a ...

The internet has always been a place where you need to be careful about how and with whom you share your personal information. But as we live more of our lives online and more of the services upon ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is the simplest, most effective way to make sure users really are who they say they are. But, not every two-factor solution is the same. Some vendors only provide the ...

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 ...

Chris Jenkins, a Sandia National Laboratories cybersecurity researcher, invented a new, simpler two-factor authentication method that does not depend on the time. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new, simpler ...

More than 80 percent of all hacking-related breaches happen due to compromised and weak credentials, with three billion username and password combinations stolen in 2016 alone. As such, the ...

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 ...

Many companies rely on Microsoft products, including Windows, Active Directory, ADFS, OWA, and RDP, in their business processes. That's why the importance of two-factor authentication (2FA or MFA) for ...

Keeper Security, a provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is introducing support for hardware security keys as a single Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) method. This is the ...

As cybercrime threatens online banking security and technologists debate the efficacy of two-factor authentication solutions, business and technical questions remain. In a Network World “Face-Off” ...

Regulations from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) will require banks and financial institutions to adopt some form of two-factor authentication technology for online ...

You’ve probably noticed a requirement to enter a temporary passcode sent through email or text message after giving your password to log into one of your online ...