How secure are your online accounts? Do you use the same password for everything? Using the same password for everything is a bad idea because it makes it easier for hackers to access your accounts.

Passwords are the worst. They can be cracked, forced open in attacked, guessed, reused, sold in data breaches, created with weak practices and stored poorly even when the best password managers are ...

The Office of Information Technology will roll out multi-factor authentication next month to protect Microsoft Office 365 applications for all staff, faculty and student employees. Between Nov. 3-18, ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include additional information about the Open-Architecture Data Repository and NOAA’s supercomputing improvements. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. After first completing the rollout for the Azure ...

Today’s relentless online criminals have made it necessary to not only employ multifactor authentication in securing IT networks and apps, but to make sure that such authentication can also be ...

One of the most crucial steps in securing a modern business computing environment is to add multi-factor authentication (MFA), so that an attacker who steals credentials can't gain access to protected ...

In previous articles about security and data breaches, we discussed the need for multi-factor authentication (MFA) on your Bitcoin accounts and any other accounts you want to protect. Hacks will ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — This story is personal for 2 Wants To Know. Last night, my phone started buzzing and dinging at 1:15 am. One after another, there was a message from my bank about a special code to ...