First, download the Microsoft Authenticator app, which is available for iOS and Android, and log in. Select the Security tab, then on the next page you'll see an option to select Two-Factor ...

Beyond just making social media venues safer, here's how to shift away from SMS-based two-factor authentications and secure your online life properly, by using Google Authenticator on your iPhone. Two ...

A recent data theft at PayPal caused a huge stir when a hacker was found wanting to sell access data to around 15.8 million accounts online—including user passwords in plain text. This type of data ...

Late on Friday, Twitter announced a new policy that will remove text message two-factor authentication (2FA) from any account that won’t pay for it. In a blog post, Twitter said that it will only ...

Starting today, Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for all but paying users following a decision that, not unlike other recent moves by the social media giant, has been met ...

So, on the strong recommendations of Ars and the forums back in the day, I had been using Authy, originally on Android/MacOS but recently on an iPhone and Windows 10. Then, of course, Authy stopped ...

Okay, so for the first time since I've started using them, my cellphone has a lockscreen now. I've come to appreciate how fragile this whole online identity thing is. Luckily I have come to that ...

Twitter plans to remove text-message two-factor authentication (2FA) from all accounts except those subscribed to Twitter Blue, effectively putting an essential user protection feature behind a ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it will require every account that manages a project on the platform to have two-factor authentication (2FA) turned on by the end of the year. PyPI ...

Billions (No, that's not a typo, Billions with a capital B) of files were potentially compromised. If you thought Node Package Manager (npm), the Billions of downloads were potentially compromised ...