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Old habits die hard—and so do old passwords. In fact, a 2019 survey conducted by Google found that 65% of people reuse the same password for multiple accounts! Yet, after decades of dangerous breaches ...

The pandemic has uprooted life for everyone, from distributors to sellers to consumers; and with this change in the economy, a heavier dependence on digitalization has formed. Businesses across ...

One-time passcodes or passwords (OTPs), like a code sent via SMS to a user’s mobile phone, are commonly used for two-factor authentication (2FA). While any form of multi-factor authentication (MFA) ...

Digital transformation has become a buzzword over the past year, with most businesses having to quickly transition from offline to online to keep up with the pace of change in consumer behaviour ...

Despite the astronomical growth of smartphones and tablets, and the rise in applications allowing consumers to purchase both virtual and real goods from their mobile devices, mobile commerce still ...

As people increasingly rely on mobile gadgets to handle everyday chores, they frequently run into old-fashioned requirements to present paper-based forms of ID to verify a wide range of transactions.

Facebook has introduced a new authentication feature designed to help users better protect their accounts from being hijacked by password-stealing miscreants. The opt-in feature — which requires users ...