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2fa Security Risk Featured

2FA and Recycled Phone Numbers Are a Security Risk

Have you changed your phone number? Researchers have learned that 2FA can lead to spammed accounts with recycled phone numbers.

By Laura Tucker – May 5, 2021

Two Factor Authentication Keys

5 of the Best Hardware Security Keys for Two-Factor Authentication

A good way to safeguard your online accounts is to make use of a hardware authentication device. Here are some of the best hardware security keys for two factor authentication.

By Rahul Nambiampurath – Mar 3, 2021

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The Best Authenticator Apps for Linux Desktop

There are desktop authenticator apps that can provide you with the secret key from your desktop. Here are the best authenticator apps for the Linux desktop.

By William Elcock – Jul 31, 2020

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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for Raspberry Pi

If you’re using SSH to access your Pi, you may want to enhance its security with 2FA. Learn here how to set up two-factor authentication on Raspberry Pi.

By Jessica Thornsby – Jun 3, 2020

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Chinese Hackers Manage to Bypass 2FA

Recenty, it was revealed that a group of Chinese hackers could avoid 2FA countermeasures. This was a worrying development in the cybersecurity world.

By Simon Batt – Jan 4, 2020

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Twitter’s New Two-Factor Authentication No Longer Needs Phone Numbers

Twitter users will no longer need their phone nubmers to authenticate in 2FA. Now there will be a choice of three ways to authenticate.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 25, 2019

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Two New Tools Allow Hackers to Bypass Two-Factor Authentication

Hackers have caught up to cybersecurity standards with two tools that are designed to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA). Learn how to stay protected.

By Laura Tucker – Jun 7, 2019

Facebook Allows Strangers to Find You with Phone Number You Provided for 2-Factor Authorization

Facebook allows others to find you with the phone number you provided them to set up two-factor authorization and doesn’t allow you to opt out of it.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 4, 2019

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How to Generate Two-Factor Authentication Code from Your Linux Desktop

Many people don’t like to use their phones for two-factor authentication. Learn how you can generate two-factor authentication code on a Linux desktop.

By Nick Congleton – Nov 28, 2018

How to Back Up Your Two-Factor Authentication Codes

You lost all your secure logins when you lost the phone that holds the 2FA codes. Learn how to back up your two-factor authentication codes now.

By Simon Batt – Aug 9, 2018

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication to Protect Your Firefox Accounts

Mozilla has begun to roll out two-factor authentication in Firefox accounts. For Firefox users, here’s how to enable two-factor authentication in Firefox.

By Ayo Isaiah – May 28, 2018

What Makes Two-Factor Authentication Flawed?

Two-factor authentication has been a very powerful way to make sure that you’re the correct person to log in to your data and access data, but there’s some bad news: it’s flawed.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 2, 2018

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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication in Ubuntu

Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. Learn how you can easily set up two-factor authentication on Ubuntu.

By Nick Congleton – Sep 5, 2017

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication for Instagram on Android

Instagram has finally added two-factor authentication to its login. Here is how you can enable two-factor authentication for Instagram on Android.

By Abhishek Macwan – Apr 8, 2017

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5 Ways to Protect Your Health Records from Hackers

Hackers can do a whole lot more with stolen healthcare records than they can with banking information these days. Here are five tips for securing your healthcare records against online thieves.

By Cosette Jarrett – Sep 3, 2016

Just How Secure Is Your Bank Account?

You probably have an online banking account. What if someone decided to hack into your account and steal from it? How secure do you think your bank account is?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 9, 2015

How to Enable Two-Step Verification for Your Apple iTunes/iCloud Account

If your Apple iTunes/iCloud account contains many confidential data, you might want to enable two-steps verification for your account. Here’s how.

By Shujaa Imran – Aug 12, 2014

Use Rublon to Add Automatic Two-Factor Authentication to WordPress

Rublon is a plugin that implements two factor authentication in WordPress, without you having to do the additional authentication step. Let see how it works.

By Damien Oh – May 14, 2014

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication in Buffer

Buffer has added a new 2-Step Login security feature to their web app. This tutorial will show you how to enable two-factor authentication in Buffer.

By Charnita Fance – Nov 28, 2013

Secure Your Yahoo Account With Second Sign-in and App Password

Yahoo has added a feature called Second Sign-in that allows you to secure Yahoo account with two factor authentication. Here’s how you can enable it.

By Mark Wilson – Nov 5, 2013

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Bright modern laboratory with computers and technical equipment for research and analysis.

ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

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When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

Starry night with radio towers and the Milky Way galaxy visible overhead.

When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

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