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 ...

Microsoft has added two-step verification to services like Outlook.com, Messenger and SkyDrive, and to sync all your settings between devices. Two-step verification, also called two-factor ...

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 ...

Two-factor authentication can be compromised. First, a reminder that two-factor and multi-factor authentication are not ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a great way to boost the security of your accounts. But even with that added layer of security, malicious actors are finding ways to break in. So-called adversary-in ...

Apple and Google also pledged to use the FIDO Alliance’s standard for biometric or PIN logins as opposed to passwords. Is Duo better than Microsoft Authenticator? Which one is safer to use? Read our ...