Does two-factor authentication need to be fixed? Tough criticisms heard this week from researchers about the effectiveness of two-factor authentication, especially as it’s used in its token form for ...

What is Two-Factor Authentication? Two-factor authentication (also known as multi-factor authentication or two-step verification) is an extra layer of protection — more protection than a traditional ...

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 ...

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: new Twitter owner Elon Musk has made a controversial move that has people considering abandoning the platform. Move over, colored check marks, because Musk is now ...

For years, cyber defenders have touted multifactor authentication (MFA) as a so-called ‘silver bullet’ against account takeover. As cyber-criminals continually ramped up their social engineering ...

Microsoft’s Teams client stores users’ authentication tokens in an unprotected text format, potentially allowing attackers with local access to post messages and move laterally through an organization ...

Fortinet says threat actors are abusing CVE-2020-12812, an improper authentication vulnerability in FortiOS, in a fresh wave ...