Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
Accessing Twitter this morning, I was greeted with a prompt saying that they were getting rid of text messages as a form of two-factor authentication unless you subscribed to Twitter Blue. I thought “fine”, because I don’t use text messages for that, preferring a one-time code managed by 1Password.
The Parallax
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Google has made it possible to use your iPhone as a two-factor authentication key, just as it did last year for Android phones. Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to account log-ins. That form of 2FA, while certainly more secure than single-factor authentication, is susceptible to SIM card jacking.
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CIO
MARCH 14, 2025
While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner.
Ruby on Rails
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Whether to a cloud VM or your own hardware. Generating the authentication basics Finally, making it easier to go to production also means we ought to make it easy to be secure. Rails has been assembling high-level abstractions for the key components of an excellent authentication system for a long time to bring that ease.
Kaseya
JULY 10, 2020
One way to improve login security is to incorporate two-factor authentication (2FA). What Is Two-Factor Authentication and How Does It Work? USB Key – Digital authentication keys are stored on USB drives, which when inserted into the device, allows you to log in securely. What Are the Benefits of Two-Factor Authentication?
The Parallax
MAY 14, 2019
or later, you are a few steps away from turning it into a two-factor authentication key , the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference here on May 7. It is much safer than one-time code systems, including SMS or authenticator code systems, as this is based on the FIDO 2.0
TechCrunch
JULY 22, 2021
Magic, a San Francisco-based startup that builds “plug and play” passwordless authentication technology, has raised $27 million in Series A funding. The company, like many others, is on a mission to end traditional password-based authentication. It’s a huge central point of failure.”.
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