Many people use various online accounts for different purposes, such as gaming, online shopping, and social networking. Internet users must protect themselves from potential threats as cybersecurity ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

For the past few years, Google has aggressively encouraged adoption of two-factor authentication (2FA) — or 2-Step Verification (2SV) as the company refers to it. This includes physical security keys ...

The benefits of two-factor authentication (2FA) are clear: A person trying to get into your accounts will need something else besides your username and password, which makes it more difficult to hack ...

Social network X said over the weekend that it plans to retire its twitter.com URL for authentication. This means users who have enabled two-factor authentication using a hardware key like YubiKey ...

Nadeem Sarwar is a reporter at Screen Rant focused on TV and film news, covering casting updates, new trailers, and premiere schedules. The social media giant says users can either set up a ...

Twitter is planning a future update that will allow accounts enabled with two-factor authentication to use security keys as the only authentication method, the company said on Monday. At present, you ...

If you’re on Twitter, you can now use a hardware security key as your sole two-factor authentication (2FA) method. While previously the microblogging service allowed users to use a security key as one ...

A dongle doesn't mitigate against a buffer overflow or similar out of band attacks anymore than the user password does. Its a barrier against password fishing, nothing more, so claiming its some kind ...

Michael is a born Texan and a former graphic designer. He's been covering technology in general and Android in particular since 2011. His interests include folk music, football, science fiction, and ...

Yubico's first hardware security keys to support biometric authentication. Do hardware security keys actually make an average user's account more secure? As far as I can tell almost no online services ...