passwords

How To Enable Two-Factor Authentication On All Your Accounts

Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication last week, joining a growing group of tech companies to support the important security feature. Two-factor authentication can help mitigate the damage of a password breach or phishing attack.


You Can Get 1Password For 50% Off Right Now

If you’re usually too cheap for security, maybe this will be enough to tempt you: 1Password is offering 50 per cent of its apps for iOS and Mac OS X.


Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication

Yesterday, Twitter finally implemented two-factor authentication. It was enough to prompt Kim Dotcom to claim that he invented the security technique.


Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Well, it’s about damn time. After an endless, occasionally entertaining string of high-profile hacks, Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to verify that it is, in fact, you logging in.


Would You Trust One Company To Oversee All Of Your Passwords?

Last Friday at Interop, Paypal’s chief information security officer, Michael Barrett, let it be known that passwords were dead.


Locked Out Of Your Facebook Account? Trusted Contacts Will Save You

Starting today, Facebook is rolling out a new Trusted Contacts feature under your account security settings. Here, you can pick three to five folks who will have the power to help you when you lock yourself out of your account.


Ultimate (Free) Virus Protection Guide

So you got caught with your pants down on the internet (figuratively, folks) and contracted a virus. That sucks. Or maybe you were wearing protection but still fell victim to some nasty bit of code that managed to slip by your antivirus software undetected. That sucks even more. Either way, it’s nothing to feel ashamed about. The web is a dangerous place and even the most tech savvy users sometimes slip up.


Report: Twitter Will Release Its Two-Step Verification Soon

Wired is reporting that Twitter has a two-step verification system currently undergoing internal testing that Twitter hopes to roll out to its users “shortly”. A two-step verification system would help prevent Twitter hacks from happening, like what happened yesterday with the @AP.


How Apple’s Password-Reset Security Breach Worked

Yesterday, The Verge uncovered a security breach that allowed malicious users to reset Apple ID passwords with nothing but an email and the user’s birthday. Luckily, the process didn’t leak out in full before the whole thing was patched up, but now iMore was able to reproduce the hack step by step and now it’s sharing details on how the whole thing worked.


Report: Apple Passwords Can Be Reset With Just Email And Birthday

Have you turned on your Apple ID two-step verification yet? You’ll want to get on that. A report from The Verge indicates that if you haven’t, hackers can change your password with nothing more than your email address and your birthday.


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