2FA Security Flaws You Should Know About
Hackers are not lazy, they evolve fast, so relying on old security measures is a terrible idea. Today we will look into how secure two-factor authentication is in general, what methods are used to hack 2FA and up-to-date ways to protect yourself against those account hacks. Finally, you will get answers to the most recurrent questions on 2FA security. How secure is two-factor authentication? Is two-factor authentication safe? All...
How to Protect Yourself From Email Hacking
We have almost stopped writing paper letters, those on crispy brand-new sheets. The lion’s share of the correspondence is now sent via emails. And often it is not even personal correspondence. For personal purposes, we have different messengers and can have an interactive dialogue. Usually, emails are used for sending business letters, which contain sensitive information. Thus, the email data protection is extremely important...
SMS Authentication: All Pros and Cons Explained
It’s delightful to see that more and more websites, apps and services employ MFA and even make this type of log-in protection a mandatory feature. What makes us a bit concerned, is that a huge portion of those websites still opt for SMS 2fa. Despite the facts that SMS verification has too many limitations and has been proven to be a lot less secure as any other two-factor authentication method. In fact, NIST (the National Institute of...
Time Drift in TOTP Hardware Tokens Explained and Solved
Multi-factor authentication by a Time based One Time Password (TOTP) generated with a physical device is, without any doubt, the staunchest approach to safeguarding sensitive data and securing access to your invaluable accounts. But being physical objects and having no internet connection gives physical TOTP tokens both their main strength and their major drawback. Without any connection to the net, the tokens’ internal clocks...
Two-factor authentication for Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
Since Windows is one of the most used systems, especially among various businesses, it makes sense to thoroughly protect it. Protectimus has an excellent two-factor authentication software for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11. In this article, we will look into how it works and how to set it up. And we will address the most common questions on our two-factor authentication for Windows login. How does two-factor authentication for Windows...