The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending a new algorithm for authenticating digital data for federal agencies. Called CMAC (cipher-based message authentication code), ...

We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and ...

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If you follow recommended security practices, you use two-factor authentication on every online service that allows it. For those who aren’t familiar with two-factor authentication, it makes it so a ...

Starting next month, Twitter says only paid Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method. Free users with the setting already enabled have until ...

A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The exposed server ...

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