![]() Two-factor authentication combines something you know - your account id and password - with something you have. In fact, two-factor authentication - SMS-based or otherwise - is significantly more secure than not using two-factor authentication at all. I’m re-visiting this topic yet again because I want to be very clear: two-factor authentication is not useless. To quote a reader: “This makes 2SV quite useless in many cases.” Unfortunately, these have led some to believe that two-factor authentication is pointless. Various media declared, “Two-factor has been hacked!”.An exploit kit was published allowing a phishing attack to hijack a two-factor secured login.This is an update to an article that originally discussed only SMS two-factor authentication. ![]() ![]() Your account is still much safer with two-factor enabled. That in no way means you shouldn't use it. Headlines are proclaiming that two-factor authentication has been hacked.
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