As passwords routinely fail to protect users, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is fast emerging as the new gold standard of cybersecurity. By adding extra layers of protection, MFA is able to block ...

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 ...

Businesses and individuals relying on passwords alone to protect online accounts face a growing wave of automated attacks ...

Last week, my blog focused on Microsoft’s push to make everything as a service a reality. One issue that reality would expose is people and companies putting much sensitive data in the cloud, for ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a crucial security feature designed to enhance the protection of your Apple account. It requires two forms of identification to ...

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 ...

Only users who pay a monthly fee for Twitter's subscription service will get to use text message authentication in order to keep their accounts secure, the social media company says. Two-factor ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...