(MoneyWatch) It's becoming increasingly clear that passwords alone are not enough to protect us from hackers and cyber-criminals. Passwords can be guessed, stolen and circumvented using social hacking ...

Are you a student or employee? You sign into your regular accounts a different way. Office and Department accounts, legacy @alumni.luther.edu accounts, and some other types of Norse Apps (i.e. Google) ...

WhatsApp is adding an extra security feature to help keep its more than a billion users safe from hacks. The company is rolling out two-step verification to its users worldwide. When it’s available ...

With the number of hacks and log-in leaks on the rise, two-step verification is a must, even if it makes signing into your accounts a chore. However, with a new verification method, Google Prompt, two ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Which is better, two-factor authentication or two-step verification? How can I protect my Apple ID against hackers? While it seems that celebrities get their Apple ID/iCloud accounts hacked on a ...

Following the recent iCloud celebrity photo hack that saw naked photos of a number of famous people hit the Web, Apple boss Tim Cook promised to improve security in a bid to ensure such an incident ...

If you have a Nintendo account, now’s a good time to make sure that you have two-step verification set up on that account to keep it secure. Nintendo makes two-step verification optional for its ...

In “LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches” (3 March 2023), I talked about how I decided to move my two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from Authy to 1Password and how the process ...

NEW YORK — Recent hacks exposing nude photographs of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities are prompting calls for people to fortify their online accounts with a second layer of security. Thieves ...

In 2021, Google started enabling two-step verification (2SV) automatically for Google accounts, citing vastly better security for the accounts that have it enabled. Now, the company shared some ...