Two-factor authentication (2FA) has emerged as a critical tool to prevent cybercrime. This functionality provides an additional layer of security beyond traditional password-based authentication. By ...

In password-based authentication, end-users confirm their identity using login credentials, commonly a unique username, and a secret password. These credentials allow the system to verify that the ...

Sixty percent of respondents hit by an authentication-related cyberattack in the last 12 months agreed that they could have avoided it with a passwordless system. shw Authentication-related attacks ...

The death of the password has been prophesied for years, but never quite seems to arrive. In recent years we've seen many attempts to design and implement the next generation of authentication ...

NordPass has added a TOTP authenticator directly into the mobile app, allowing users to generate and autofill authentication ...

Last year, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued an alert that hackers were targeting organizations in the United States with a ­massive wave of attacks based on ...

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 ...

What’s your mother’s maiden name? What was your first pet called? The first car you drove -- what was the make and model? If you’ve ever been asked one of these questions while logging into a website ...