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 ...

This article explains two-factor authentication and how to get verification apps and codes. What is Two-Factor (2FA) Authentication? Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security feature that adds ...

Last week, my blog focused on Microsoft’s push to make everything as a service a reality. One issue that reality would expose is people and companies putting much sensitive data in the cloud, for ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Phishing takes advantage of the weakest link in any organization’s cybersecurity system — human behavior. Phishing attacks are generally launched via email, although some opening salvos have begun ...

If you haven’t seen your data exposed in a major data breach within the last five years alone, you haven’t been paying attention. Billions of people worldwide have lost their data many times over. 26 ...

Everyone agrees that authenticating your identity to log in, whether at work or at home, is usually either quite easy but not secure at all or very secure but painfully difficult. People naturally ...

I'm trying to understand how public key authentication works and with tools such as ChatGPT I'm able to resolve how it works; the server keeps a tab of "authorized" public keys and uses them to ...

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 ...

Getting a security code sent via text to gain access to your Gmail account will soon be a thing of the past as Google will reportedly stop using SMS codes in favor of another form of two-factor ...

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 ...

While ordinary data breaches have become a staple of our daily lives, the loss of genetic information stands out. Most data created during our lifetime either loses its value within a year (such as ...