The Microsoft-owned hosting service has had support for 2FA for eight years, and is now pushing for a wider use of the feature after it stopped accepting account passwords for authenticating Git operations. Initially announced in July 2020 and in effect starting August 13, 2021, the change requires the use of token-based authentication (personal access […]
“Security keys offer the strongest protection for your Twitter account because they have built-in protections to ensure that even if a key is used on a phishing site, the information shared can’t be used to access your account,” Twitter explains. Security keys rely on FIDO and WebAuthn security standards to ensure protection against account compromise […]
The social platform has had support for security keys for desktop users for some time, and made the feature available to iOS and Android users too in December 2020. Now, the company allows users to take advantage of multiple security keys when securing their accounts, regardless of whether on a mobile device or on desktop. […]
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