If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: You should use two-factor authentication everywhere you can. It’s an easily enacted security measure that should give you a lot more ...

Two-step verification–also known as two-factor authentication (2FA)–is an additional layer of protection, beyond your password, that decreases the risk of a hacker accessing your online accounts.

Two-factor authentication (aka multi-factor authentication or two-step authentication) adds a second layer of protection to your most important online accounts. Once you’ve enabled it ...

Let’s start from here: two-factor authentication and two-step verification are two different concepts. By now, I believe that pretty much everyone’s aware of the fact that no matter how strong ...

Two-step account verification is a hot topic after hackers nearly wiped out the digital life of tech journalist Mat Honan recently, and Dropbox is the latest online service to enable the added ...

The T-Mobile hack may have made it easier for attackers to stage a SIM swap attack, in which they take over a phone line to intercept two-step verification (also called two-factor authentication ...

Which is better, two-factor authentication or two-step verification? How can I protect my Apple ID against hackers? While it seems that celebrities get their Apple ID/iCloud accounts hacked on a ...

Apple began rolling out two-step authentication for Apple ID and iCloud users Thursday, highlighting the growing importance of security as our digital lives move to cloud-based services.

Two-factor authentication—often referred to as two-step authentication and 2FA—is a method for keeping your data safe online by adding an extra step (or more) to the log-in process.

Two-factor authentication is the best protection against any of those, plus so much more. I'll explain what it is and why you should enable it whenever possible. Sometimes called 2-factor ...

You know you should use two-factor authentication everywhere you can, but there’s also “two-step” authentication, which may come off like the same thing. They’re really not. Here’s the ...