(1) A USB key or app in a smartphone that provides a second authentication mechanism. See two-factor authentication. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Silent authentication strengthens security while reducing friction for customers and employees, protecting accounts without disrupting the user experience.

Paranoid about someone hacking your Instagram account and running amok with Valencia-filtered spam ads for garcinia cambogia? I feel you. I mean, really, who isn't? Fortunately, Instagram just ...

Many North American IT leaders are preparing to significantly improve their user authentication technologies in the next two years, according to a new vendor survey. Sixty-five per cent of respondents ...

Twitter has announced it will now charge its users for text-based two-factor authentication (2FA), meaning only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to utilize the security feature after March 30.

The consumerization of IT and business bring your own device (BYOD) programs have resulted in potential security problems for IT leaders, according to Gartner Inc. User expectations of a clean and ...

Apple has joined a veritable who's who of tech vendors in the FIDO Alliance who see standardized, two-factor authentication as the way forward for device log-in. In a somewhat unusual move for Apple, ...