Two-factor authentication is a false sense of security
Guest Post While many companies promise to deploy two-factor authentication, it may not protect us as well as we hope.
Get ready for more media hacks, Twitter warns
April 30, 2013 4:18 PM
Meghan Kelly
Twitter sent out a letter to publications today warning them that more attacks will come in the future and to start preparing now.
Why two-factor authentication wouldn’t have saved the AP from getting hacked
April 24, 2013 2:01 PM
Meghan Kelly
While two-factor authentication is a great extra barrier between hackers and you, it wouldn't have stopped the phishing attack that led to the hack on the AP's Twitter account.
Twitter’s upcoming two-step sign-in system could prevent the next big hack
April 24, 2013 7:07 AM
Ricardo Bilton
Twitter wants wants to make it tougher for bad guys to crack high-profile Twitter accounts. It's about time.
Hacking lessons learned: how to cover your digital ass
April 11, 2013 11:50 AM
Meghan Kelly
Mat Honan got owned last year and it sucked, but you can still learn his lesson.
8 months after hack on Wired reporter, Apple adds two-factor authentication to iCloud
March 21, 2013 2:54 PM
Meghan Kelly
Apple introduced the two-factor authentication option for securing your iCloud accounts today.
Toopher funding gives location-based two factor authentication a boost
January 30, 2013 6:07 PM
Meghan Kelly
Toopher, which "authenticates" your identity by looking at your phone's location, got $2 million in funding and admittance to an Austin tech incubator.
Passwords are not enough, says startup making voice, motion, facial, & location verification for phones
October 2, 2012 10:50 AM
Meghan Kelly
We hear about "bring your own device" and protecting the enterprise cloud all day every day. But what about the consumer cloud, i.e.: half the applications on your phone. Passwords aren't safe enough, but perhaps using the wealth of available technology on a smartphone can help us more securely identify ourselves.
Dropbox adds two-step verification to make your account more secure
August 26, 2012 2:42 PM
Sean Ludwig
Just weeks after another security breach, cloud storage company Dropbox has added a two-step verification process to help make user accounts more secure.
Blizzard’s mobile and dial-in authenticators breached in hack
August 9, 2012 5:37 PM
Meghan Kelly
Game publisher Blizzard was hacked this week, as discovered by the security team, which Blizzard says is currently working with law enforcement to figure out who is behind the breach.
Toopher boosts security using your smartphone’s GPS
April 18, 2012 9:56 AM
Dylan Tweney
Passwords are notoriously insecure. You can greatly increase security by adding two-factor authentication, but making people check their phones for a secret code is annoying.
Toopher offers a clever alternative: two-factor authentication that doesn’t require you to take your phone …
