Passwords are the worst. They can be cracked, forced open in attacked, guessed, reused, sold in data breaches, created with weak practices and stored poorly even when the best password managers are ...

Aegis Authenticator is an app developed for Android and distributed on Google Play and F-Droid. This time, I will install it from Google Play. First, search for Aegis Authenticator on Google Play and ...

You lock your doors—why not your accounts? Two-Factor authentication is your last line of online defense. Using a mobile authenticator app isn't hard to set up ...

We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and ...

One-time SMS codes are widely used as the second checkpoint in two-factor authentication (2FA) to sign into everything from banking apps to email accounts. As I've written before, though, SMS is one ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Every day, millions of people sign in to their email, banking app or social media accounts with both their password and a one-time ...

Signing up for an extra layer of protection besides your password – such as a pass code, push notification or security question – has long been an obvious way to secure your online bank or investing ...