In this digital age where most of our identities are linked to online services and social media platforms, the matter of security has gotten increasingly more important. This is why most services that ...

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 ...

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In fact, in Standard Notes, your notes and authentication codes live side by side since authenticator functionality is a type of note in the app. The authenticator feature in Standard Notes allows you ...

Authenticator apps are increasing in adoption as they add another layer of security to user identity verification. An ITRC study found that more than 1.35 billion individuals had their personal data ...

Unfortunately, the final issue I have with Authy ties into leaving it. Authy has no option for exporting your TOTP keys; if you want to switch to another 2FA app, you have to manually disable 2FA on ...

You probably have what seems like a million accounts across the internet these days, right? At least, that’s what it feels like for me — with all these social media, email, and banking accounts, plus ...

Learn how to disable Microsoft's default requirement for its Authenticator app in Microsoft 365 and regain control over your organization's multifactor authentication settings. Although Microsoft has ...

In “Two-Factor Authentication, Two-Step Verification, and 1Password” (10 July 2023), I explained that for true two-factor authentication, you needed to acquire your time-based one-time password (TOTP) ...

The other day Twitter made SMS-based two-factor authentication paid on its platform. But that’s not the only way to secure your Twitter or any other accounts using two-factor authentication. There are ...

If you use the Microsoft Authenticator app on your Apple Watch, be prepared to look for an alternative starting January 2023. Yet another companion app is leaving the Apple Watch, and this time it's ...

My problem with taking the second option is that it's highly unlikely anyone will do the research needed to determine the true cause of a hack. CYA for the company rather than encouraging better ...