The Evolution of Two-Step Authentication
With the advent of computer technologies in everyday life, the protection of data transmitted and stored in the network has become a necessity. Along with the hardware and software components, the data protection systems must include authentication tools that can prevent unauthorized access to the accounts. At first, the usual reusable passwords seemed a quite sufficient protection means. But, it soon became clear that this way of...
Two-Factor Authentication in Cloud Security
Today, cloud services are incredibly popular both among users who store their personal data there and among the companies that use cloud services for a successful business. We shouldn’t underestimate the importance of the cloud, as a means to store the employees’ personal data and the necessary corporate information, which is available to an employee at any time and at any place. But we shouldn’t forget about cloud security...
Two-Step Authentication Is Already in Instagram
Few days ago it became known that Instagram starts rolling out two-factor authentication. At first, a beta version of 2FA was tested by a small number of selected users. But now two-step authentication becomes available to everyone. But what is the most surprising about this news is that the popular social network has moved to it so slowly. After all, two-factor authentication has long been an integral part of data protection of all...
Mobile Trojan Virus Android.Bankosy Intercepts One-Time Passwords
We store a lot of important information in the network: personal correspondence, photos, documents. For the most part, these are spiritual values – precious memories and the fruits of hours-long labor. But the Internet also stores rather concrete financial ‘matters’: our money. Today many people use online banking, as it is convenient to transfer funds, to pay for the services, and to control your accounts online. It is no...
Strong Authentication Methods in 2016
At the beginning of the new year, everyone is trying to predict what it will bring: what trends will prevail in the economy and politics, what outfits will be the most fashionable, what books will possess the minds and souls, how inventors and developers will surprise and delight fans of technological progress. Let’s try to predict how the technologies and strong authentication methods would develop in 2016, what new things are...