Security and convenience often seen to conflict with each other. Choosing convenience provides the most flexible use. An example would be having your web-based email available on each of your ...

A talented hacker might be able to easily crack the password for your bank account – especially if it falls under the easy-to-guess formula of your first name and last initial. However, if you have ...

One of the best pieces of security advice any computer expert can give you is to enable two-factor authentication for websites that support it. With password breaches so common nowadays, it could be ...

You know you should use two-factor authentication everywhere you can, but there’s also “two-step” authentication, which may come off like the same thing. They’re really not. Here’s the difference, and ...

We all know that a password that's tough to crack provides protection against unauthorized intrusion into your digital accounts, but what if your user name and password are stolen? Recently, a hacker ...

For example, if you set up two-factor authentication for Twitter, the next time you log into the app or website from your phone or computer, you’ll be directed to a page asking you to enter an ...

Three years ago to the day, Apple added in two-step verification to help improve user security. The verification method relied on the user having another device readily available to help authenticate ...

>> YOU ARE WATCHING WCVB. BEN: A BIG CHANGE THIS MONTH FOR TWITTER USERS WHO DON’T SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW BLUE SERVICE. THE COMPANY IS REMOVING TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION THRU TEXT MESSAGES. THAT’S WHEN ...

Just last week, Instagram confirmed reports that it’s modifying its account security setup to allow users to log in with passcodes from security apps, like Google Authenticator, instead of simpler ...

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 ...

With more than 1.2 billion daily active users and 50 billion messages sent per day, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app across the globe. That’s for good reason: Not only does the app include ...

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