When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

In today’s digital world, protecting personal and business accounts has never been more critical. Cybercriminals are constantly looking for ways to steal data, money, and sensitive information.

File-sharing platform ownCloud warned users today to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to block attackers using ...

Using two or more different forms of identification to authenticate a user. The common single-factor method employs one password. For more security, multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds at least one ...

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 ...

Cyberattacks are on the rise everywhere today, with organizations and individual account passwords routinely targeted by hackers – especially where accounts are vulnerable due to a lack of additional ...

Microsoft is replacing the "Notify me through app (push to approve)" multi-factor authentication (MFA) method with the "number matching" MFA method. With the current method, users receive a pop-up on ...

Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, ...

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 ...

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.

The purpose of this policy is to define requirements for accessing Connecticut College's network and information systems securely. These standards are designed to minimize the potential security ...