Two-factor authentication (2FA) has emerged as a critical tool to prevent cybercrime. This functionality provides an additional layer of security beyond traditional password-based authentication. By ...

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 ...

Morehead State University Office for Information Technology (OIT) offers enhanced protection for key applications and services using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or two-factor authentication.

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 ...

Have you ever heard about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)? Maybe not, but chances are you’ve been using it without even knowing. You see, MFA in the eyes of many is viewed as the gold standard for ...

As passwords routinely fail to protect users, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is fast emerging as the new gold standard of cybersecurity. By adding extra layers of protection, MFA is able to block ...

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 ...

The most common way cyber-criminal hackers break into enterprise networks is by stealing or guessing usernames and passwords. The attacks, whether the goal is stealing information, executing a ...

In “LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches” (3 March 2023), I talked about how I decided to move my two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from Authy to 1Password and how the process ...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) significantly strengthens cryptocurrency security by requiring multiple forms of verification. Implementing MFA for cryptocurrency is crucial for protecting exchanges ...

UC Santa Barbara will roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) for VPN access this summer, with plans to use the protocol for a number of other applications over the course of the next year. The ...