Amid allegations that the Hotmail account of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been hacked, discussions around ways to improve information security are focusing on increased adoption of ...

Evernote is speeding up its plans to offer two-factor authentication to users following a recent data breach that exposed user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The company, which makes ...

Security experts say Twitter's security systems need to be strengthened. April 24, 2013 — -- It can be said in the length of a single tweet: When a 140-character message can lead to national ...

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Dozens of organizations that use real-time content collaboration platforms appear to have lost not only credentials but also ...

(NewsNation) — The FBI is warning Americans to stop relying on text messages for two-factor authentication in the wake of a major network hack that could expose unencrypted messages to cybercriminals.

Just when you thought Facebook has put the worst of its troubles behind, the social media giant revealed on Friday that it had experienced a new security incident that possibly affected 90 million ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. As I reported Dec. 29, hackers using compromised Chrome ...

UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed that a hacker took over its X account through a "SIM swap" attack that seized control of a cell phone associated with the account. That ...

A Google account sits at the heart of the internet experience for billions of users worldwide. Protecting it is paramount if services such as Gmail, Google Docs and Google Photos are to remain secure.