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Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-factor authentication (also Two-factor authentication, TFA, T-FA or 2FA) is an approach to authentication which requires the presentation of two or more of the three authentication factors: a knowledge factor ("something the user knows"), a possession factor ("something the user has"), and an inherence factor ("something the user is").

Here are the most common passwords of 2021, is yours on the list?
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Here are the most common passwords of 2021, is yours on the list?

  • The Conversation
  • 3 years ago
Google is automatically turning on 2FA — how to check your settings
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Google is automatically turning on 2FA — how to check your settings

  • Ivan Mehta
  • 3 years ago
Instagram might soon send you 2FA codes via WhatsApp
  • Instagram

Instagram might soon send you 2FA codes via WhatsApp

  • Ivan Mehta
  • 4 years ago

Google will soon automatically enroll users in 2FA
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Google will soon automatically enroll users in 2FA

  • Thomas Macaulay
  • 4 years ago
WhatsApp ‘flaw’ lets anyone lock you out of the app — but it’s complicated
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WhatsApp ‘flaw’ lets anyone lock you out of the app — but it’s complicated

  • Ivan Mehta
  • 4 years ago
Here’s why you’re not receiving OTPs in India right now (Updated)
  • Multi-factor authentication

Here’s why you’re not receiving OTPs in India right now (Updated)

  • Ivan Mehta
  • 4 years ago
Inside FIDO Alliance’s vision of a future free of passwords
  • Windows 10

Inside FIDO Alliance’s vision of a future free of passwords

  • Ivan Mehta
  • 4 years ago
Pardon the Intrusion #28: Your 2FA phone got stolen. Now what?
  • Security

Pardon the Intrusion #28: Your 2FA phone got stolen. Now what?

  • Ravie Lakshmanan
  • 4 years ago
Pardon the Intrusion #27: The first death directly linked to ransomware
  • Security

Pardon the Intrusion #27: The first death directly linked to ransomware

  • Ravie Lakshmanan
  • 4 years ago
Apple wants to make 2FA safer with domain bound SMS codes
  • Multi-factor authentication

Apple wants to make 2FA safer with domain bound SMS codes

  • Ivan Mehta
  • 5 years ago

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