2FA keys are yet another way to implement two-factor authentication. Instead of waiting for a numeric code to be texted to your phone when you log into Google or Dropbox from a new computer, you ...

Many people use various online accounts for different purposes, such as gaming, online shopping, and social networking. Internet users must protect themselves from potential threats as cybersecurity ...

Tony Lauro, director of security technology and strategy at Akamai, discusses hardware security dongles and using phones to act as surrogates for them. You have to hand it to the cyber-thieves: They ...

SMS two-factor authentication is no longer available on Twitter, unless you pay for Twitter Blue. Fortunately, if your an iPhone user, there's a better option anyway. With more than a decade of ...

Social network X said over the weekend that it plans to retire its twitter.com URL for authentication. This means users who have enabled two-factor authentication using a hardware key like YubiKey ...

Twitter is planning a future update that will allow accounts enabled with two-factor authentication to use security keys as the only authentication method, the company said on Monday. At present, you ...

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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Fortnite is the premier battle royale game today and as millions of players find it more interesting as new seasons pile on, shady parties are also ramping up their efforts to compromise unwitting ...

update Singapore's national authentication framework (NAF) needs a critical mass of transactions and an expanded scope to succeed, say industry players familiar with the framework. First announced in ...