The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) --the organization that develops and promotes Internet standards-- has approved three new standards this week designed to improve the security of ...

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are integral to the functionality of the internet today. By enabling communications between programs, they make many processes more efficient and convenient, ...

"Two-step verification," "strong authentication," "2FA," and "MFA." Far more people are familiar with these terms today than just a few years ago. Multifactor authentication — or simply MFA — ...

An advisory from the U.S. National Security Agency provides Microsoft Azure administrators guidance to detect and protect against threat actors looking to access resources in the cloud by forging ...

Security analysts have found a severe security vulnerability in the desktop app for Microsoft Teams that gives threat actors access to authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor ...

Authentication tokens aren't actual physical tokens, of course. But when these digital identifiers aren't expired regularly or pinned for use by a specific device only, they may as well be made of ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Every business needs a secure way to collect, manage, and authenticate passwords. Unfortunately, no method is foolproof. Storing passwords in the browser and sending one-time access codes by SMS or ...