Google is going to start enrolling all of its users in two-step verification, if they haven’t set it up already. Will it come as a shock to some? Sure. But that’s fine; the surprise will fade away, ...

Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

All 1Hope Accounts and plus.hope.edu Accounts are required to have Multi-Factor Authentication (also called "Two-Factor" or "Two-Step Authentication") enabled. What ...

The internet is very vulnerable to multiple types of attacks which makes users skeptical about having an account. One way of certainly securing your account is by activating a two-factor ...

Two-factor authentication should be your default setting for all the online spaces where you dwell. And for PlayStation owners specifically, setting that up is as easy as it could be. Sony's two-step ...

Google’s updated 2FA setup no longer requires a phone number by default. Users can set up 2FA directly with an authenticator app or hardware key, skipping SMS verification. Google has streamlined its ...

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 ...

Having accounts on any online platform linked to your email or other accounts comes with a risk, even on Twitch. If you don’t have two-factor authentication set up on your Twitch account, you should ...

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) ...

For a long time, I assumed my online accounts were secure enough. I was not using weak passwords, and I had a system that felt reasonably safe. It was not perfect, but it did not feel like something I ...