If you want to keep your online accounts safe, adding two-factor authentication (2FA) is the single most important step you can take. While no security measure is 100 percent hackproof, 2FA is going ...

A ransomware attack was prevented just because the intended victim was using multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the attackers decided it wasn't worth the effort to attempt to bypass it. It's often ...

User account authentication seems stuck with 18th-century pin-tumbler locks in an era of heat-sensitive, motion-detecting vaults with man traps and biometric sensors. As I recently discussed, ...

There are many ways to improve your security with multi-factor authentication, but some kinds offer more protection from hacking and tracking. In previous articles about security and data breaches, we ...

Hackers often exploit reused passwords, gaining access to multiple accounts if just one is compromised. To stay safe, use strong, unique passwords for every account and change them regularly. However, ...

Online threats are constantly evolving, so it’s often difficult, even counterproductive, to compare how useful a security control is in today’s threat environment to the threat environment of a few ...

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For years, Facebook has given its users the option of protecting their accounts with two-factor authentication. Soon, the platform's highest-risk users will no longer have a choice: The social network ...

Risk-based authentication (RBA), also called adaptive authentication, has come of age, and it couldn’t happen fast enough for many corporate security managers. As phishing and account takeovers have ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Max Eddy Max Eddy is a writer who has covered privacy and security — including ...

Elon Musk was right: Text messages are not the most secure way to protect your account. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology writer for The New York Times. Twitter recently ...

As much as our digital ecosystem has advanced in recent years, some elements of the security world have been slower to change. For example, a shortage of well-trained cybersecurity professionals has ...