When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that vacation season’s coming to an end, it’s a good moment to review the security of your ...

apology conference regarding the large-scale damage caused by fraudulent use at Seven-Eleven's ' 7pay, ' Kobayashi, the president of operating company Seven Pay, asked about two-step certification ...

When signing in to web services, many people have set up two-step authentication or multi-factor authentication because authentication using only an email address and password can be insecure. However ...

Cam has worked in online tech reporting since 2010 and has a BA (Hons) degree in TV and Film Production. His responsibilities at Pocket-lint include planning our video strategy, then producing and ...

Security experts say Twitter's security systems need to be strengthened. April 24, 2013 — -- It can be said in the length of a single tweet: When a 140-character message can lead to national ...

I do my banking and money management with a U.S.-based global financial planning company. Like most such companies, this one is pushing its customers toward the Web for conducting transactions.

On my way home from work yesterday, I stopped at one of my bank’s automated teller machines and withdrew $40. In order to do so, I had to insert my personal ATM card and then enter a password. This ...

You lock your doors—why not your accounts? Two-Factor authentication is your last line of online defense. Using a mobile authenticator app isn't hard to set up. Yeah, it takes extra seconds to get ...

I have long encouraged the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) or two-step verification (2SV) with online accounts whenever possible (for more about the difference, see “Two-Factor Authentication, ...

writer Mat Honan fell victim to a brutal hack over the weekend. Through misplaced ingenuity and a smidgen of social engineering, and wiped his iPhone, iPad, and Mac drives clean. The involved breaking ...