Many of the compromising photos from the cache of celebrity photos leaked last month were obtained by hackers spoofing a target’s iCloud account to download an unencrypted backup of the target’s phone ...

The iCloud Keychain password manager built into iOS and macOS is reportedly getting support for two-factor authentication. This is a feature now only available in third-party password managers like ...

In “LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches” (3 March 2023), I talked about how I decided to move my two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from Authy to 1Password and how the process ...

Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to protect your iCloud account, while iCloud Private Relay safeguards your privacy when browsing online with Apple's Safari browser. Consider ...

With its next round of software updates coming this fall, including iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple will launch integrated support for the passkeys standard. The passkey standard is described as ...

There’s much more to iCloud Keychain than meets the eye. Apple’s password-management system suggests strong passwords, autofills them whenever you need to sign in later, and syncs across all your ...

Three cheers! Apple has finally gotten around to adding support for multi-factor authentication for its Apple ID system. Finally, users will be able to log in to their iCloud accounts with peace of ...

Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

Two-factor authentication is a security process that requires users to provide two distinct authentication factors to access an account. By introducing a second layer ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a method that allows users to gain access to their accounts and devices by presenting two separate and distinct forms of identification. A common form of second ...