Digital security has been a hot topic this year. Between the theft of private celebrity photos (see “iCloud Flaw Not Source of Celebrity Photo Theft,” 2 September 2014) and multiple credit card leaks, ...

In an era when standard password protection no longer seems like a foolproof method for securing the likes of bank account information and private photos stored on mobile devices and the cloud, one ...

When you use two-factor authentication, chances are you are getting your second factor from a mobile phone app like Google Authenticator or Authy. This makes sense, given that you want to ensure that ...

Bertel is a Linux user who likes budget smartphones more than flagships, uses a custom ROM, and gets his apps from F-Droid. When he isn't writing short stories for Android Police, you might find him ...

April 29, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you're using two-factor authentication (you really should), most likely your mobile phone is the second factor ...

If you run your own WordPress site, chances are you are using a pretty secure password to keep hackers from posting random stories to your blog. Still, even the best password isn’t as good as using ...

It has been the era of online identity theft and account compromise for over a decade now and few users know this as well as gamers and game companies. To help combat this scourge of account hijacking ...

In my list of Must-Have iPad Apps for 2013, I mentioned Authy and two-factor authentication: Authy. If you’re not using two-step authentication for online services that support it, you’re doing it ...

A hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio. The company confirmed to CyberGuy that threat actors got access to the data associated with its Authy ...

As we’ve all witnessed over the last few years, cyber security has gone from existential threat to something very, very real. Every week, it seems, either a retail giant or a tech company or even a ...

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