After extensive breaches over the past few years, companies have been working to develop a standard to protect data transfer over the internet. Protection with a single password is a thing of the past ...

Google has long offered SMS as an option to receive two-factor authentication codes for Gmail. However, there are risks associated with it. Criminals can easily intercept SMS verification and make you ...

Cybersecurity is an ongoing problem, with critical flaws and weaknesses ranging from ongoing research into how best to break fundamental aspects of CPU architectures to users perennial terrible choice ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're wondering how to enable 2FA (two-factor authentication) for your Google account, we've got your back. A lot of people still create passwords comprising only characters. However, it is now ...

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.

Google is phasing out SMS-based six-digit authentication codes for Gmail, opting instead for QR codes as a more secure method of two-factor authentication (2FA), according to the Forbes report. The ...

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 ...

Less than 10% of Gmail account holders use two-factor authentication to lock down their accounts. The service has been available for seven years.

What is two-factor authentication, and why do experts say it's the key to better online security? Two-factor authentication—often referred to as two-step authentication and 2FA—is a method for keeping ...