To address these needs, this product includes a fingerprint reader and smart card reader for effective two-factor authentication.
We all know by now that two-factor authentication drastically increases the security of an online account.
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Some banks, for example, have begun offering two-factor authentication, but many more have not.
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But McCoy also argues that two-factor authentication will nonetheless take a big bite out of cybercrime.
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Luckily, users with the new two-factor authentication feature enabled would seem to be immune to the attack.
Mr Ferguson noted that as Twitter remained a free service supported by advertising, two-factor authentication could prove costly.
Still, mobile malware as a whole is growing, and two-factor authentication is increasingly being used to defeat traditional security schemes.
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Google has, in the wake of such public failings, began pushing its two-factor authentication with a pretty heavy hand.
In addition to capturing regular passwords, man-in-the-middle attacks can be used to intercept one-time passcodes offered by traditional two-factor authentication systems.
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Two-factor authentication requires you to confirm your identity with two separate things.
Gmail and Yahoo both offer two-factor authentication, but Outlook currently does not.
He also says you should use two-factor authentication on your Gmail account.
When it comes to your important online accounts, one of the most effective security measures you can take is turning on two-factor authentication.
McCoy is right: No technology can offer absolute security, and two-factor authentication could be a huge improvement to the security of the cloud.
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It did so by offering single sign-on, knowledge-based and multi-factor authentication options, which ensure that the right person signs the right document consistently.
Finally, the plan makes multi-factor authentication available to website owners for the cost of adding a few lines of software to their server code.
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If two-factor authentication becomes ubiquitous and the cybercriminal industry continues to shift its attention to smartphones, this obscure angle of attack might just catch on.
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In the past, multi-factor authentication was used mostly by large corporations because the cost of deploying the system and managing the tokens was so high.
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Specifically, there have been calls from security professionals for two-factor authentication.
Although frankly, the financial sites have to start embracing dual factor authentication for all of their users, password authentication does have its reasonable, well enumerated, limitations.
All this leaves one to wonder if two factor authentication, an added security measure Twitter seems to be exploring, will be deployed sooner rather than later.
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Two-factor authentication works by requiring that anyone who wants to gain access to something possess not just a password or login, but also some physical object.
On Facebook, for example, two-factor authentication is triggered when users try to log in in an unexpected way, such as from a computer in a different country.
But when I asked Bruce Schneier, an encryption guru who has written negatively about two-factor authentication in the past, he was surprisingly upbeat about the new feature.
Google announced last week, for instance, that it will offer two-factor authentication on many of its online services, and may make the service open source and available to other companies.
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Not every user will want two-factor authentication, of course.
The problem with an APT-style attack is there are so many ways to get in, so organizations should look more closely at introducing Multi-Factor Authentication in the cloud, as the new PCI Virtualization Guidelines strongly recommend.
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If businesses choose, they can opt for single-factor authentication, though two-factor security is also an option -- as unique as the veins in your palm are, it's still possible for the reader to register a false positive.
Critics of Twitter say the service is vulnerable to unauthorized messages because the company hasn't widely implemented "two-factor authentication, " an extra layer of protection to ensure a person who enters a password to a digital service is the authorized user.
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Those innocuous traits led investigators to initially believe the computer access from China using Bob's credentials was unauthorized -- and that some form of malware was sidestepping strong two-factor authentication that included a token RSA key fob under Bob's name.
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