My friend, colleague and former graduate student Carl Ness recently wrote to me excitedly, “It’s about time this reached the consumer… I got mine yesterday, and I must say, it works really well. Now ...

A talented hacker might be able to easily crack the password for your bank account – especially if it falls under the easy-to-guess formula of your first name and last initial. However, if you have ...

E-commerce giant eBay and its Paypal subsidiary are the most-spoofed brands by fraudster today, according to research firm Gartner. Mike Vergara, senior director of accounts protection at PayPal, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve probably noticed a requirement to enter a temporary passcode sent through email or text message after giving your password to log into one of your online ...