Your Amazon account contains sensitive information like your credit card and home address, so make two-step verification a priority. Two-step verification makes it ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides an extra layer of security for online accounts like banking or emails. It combines a traditional password with a different device you have access to, such as a ...

Two-Factor authentication is your last line of online defense. Using a mobile authenticator app isn't hard to set up. Yeah, it takes extra seconds to get into an ...

If you haven’t seen your data exposed in a major data breach within the last five years alone, you haven’t been paying attention. Billions of people worldwide have lost their data many times over. 26 ...

You no longer need to enter your phone number to enable two-factor authentication. You no longer need to enter your phone number to enable two-factor authentication ...

Two-factor authentication is the best protection against any of those, plus so much more. I'll explain what it is and why you should enable it whenever possible. Sometimes called 2-factor ...

A Google account sits at the heart of the internet experience for billions of users worldwide. Protecting it is paramount if services such as Gmail, Google Docs and Google Photos are to remain secure.

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 ...

Protecting an account with just a username and password is not very smart. Both can be stolen, guessed, or cracked too easily. This is why two-factor authentication (2FA) is recommended for all ...

Google has given notice that anyone using its Google Cloud services will need to secure their account(s) via 2FA, as the tech giant will be making it mandatory by the end of 2025. The move is similar ...

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 ...

Twitter’s latest move under Elon Musk is to start charging a fee for the use of SMS messages for two-factor authentication. To avoid that charge, here’s how to use Google Authenticator for Twitter two ...