The apps generate short-lived codes to use along with a password. That can be safer than having codes texted to you. By Yael Grauer In a world riddled with data breaches, having a strong password ...

Traditional passwords are no longer sufficiently safe in today's changing digital landscape. Hackers have created various tried-and-true techniques for stealing credentials and getting illegal access ...

Morehead State University Office for Information Technology (OIT) offers enhanced protection for key applications and services using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or two-factor authentication.

Multifactor authentication (MFA) or two-factor authentication (2FA) is one of the most basic cybersecurity defenses we have and should be used wherever possible. MFA is a key component in the White ...

The internet has always been a place where you need to be careful about how and with whom you share your personal information. But as we live more of our lives online and more of the services upon ...

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) describes digital authentication solutions that require the user to share two or more “secrets” that only the user and the authentication system should know to prove ...

You’ve probably noticed a requirement to enter a temporary passcode sent through email or text message after giving your password to log into one of your online ...

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 ...

Michael Engle is CSO at 1Kosmos, and was previously head of information security at Lehman Brothers and co-founder of Bastille Networks. Stealing credentials is one of the most common ways hackers use ...

Only a quarter of the SMBs surveyed by the Cyber Readiness Institute require MFA among employees to sign into applications and devices. Image: THAWEERAT/Adobe Stock ...