two-factor authentication Archives

CCATP #732 – Ask Me Anything (About Security) with Bart Busschots

CCATP #732 for June 11, 2022, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots. This week we’re going to do something a little different; we’re doing an “Ask Me Anything (About Security)”. I sent out the request for questions to our Slack community (https://podfeet.com/slack), to Twitter, to a few user […]

Security Bits — 5 Feb 2022

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 ID.me developments: ID.me CEO Admits Company Uses ‘1:Many’ Facial Recognition — www.macobserver.com/… Treasury Considers ID.Me Alternatives Over Privacy Concerns — money.usnews.com/… Related: Tax scam emails are alive and well as US tax season […]

Security Bits – Facebook Token Hack, Bloomberg Amazon & Apple Servers & China, Facebook Uses 2FA Numbers for Advertising

Security Bits – 5 October 2018 Followups 🇺🇸 The CA IoT security law discussed previously has been signed into law — www.theverge.com/… Google have announced plans to further limit what browser plugins can do in an attempt to crack down on the explosion in plugin-based malware we talked about last time — arstechnica.com/… & nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…

NC #646 Clarify, NIST on Two-Factor Authentication, Duplicating DVDs, iPhone X vs 8 Plus Screensizes

This week we’ll talk about some sad news from the makers of my beloved Clarify, then I’ll do a crazy deep dive into the National Institute of Standards and Technology about two-factor authentication. I do this to help you understand what your bank needs to know about using SMS or email or a phone call […]

NC #595 Two-Factor Authentication with Apple Watch and Apple TV, Android Apps on Chrome OS, Security Bits

This week starts with a rant about how “interesting” it was to try to set up the Apple Watch to unlock a Mac, otherwise known as an adventure in changing two-step verification into two-factor authentication. Then we take a break and listen to George from Tulsa tell us about how ChromeOS now supports Android apps […]

You May Not Want to Turn on Two-Factor Authentication If You Have an Apple TV 2 or 3

This post has been dramatically edited (and improved) since it’s first publish date, thanks to alert readers Mike C and Giles Croft. Spoiler alert – you CAN use two-factor authentication on an Apple TV 2 or 3! If you’ve already read this post, jump down to the heading “Breaking News”. A little while ago I […]

Enabling Two-Factor Authentication to Allow Apple Watch to Unlock Your Mac

One of the things I was really looking forward to with macOS Sierra and watchOS 3 was the ability to unlock my Mac with my Apple Watch. I know it’s a small thing but typing that silly password 20 times a day gets on my nerves. I’m not as crazy as George from Tulsa thinks […]

NC #579 Olympus PEN-F Camera, Two-Factor Not That Bad, SLIK Monopod, AquaTech Camera Housing, Security Bits

My video tutorial about Affinity Photo (part 1) is up on ScreenCasts Online at screencastsonline.com/…. Two interviews from Photon LA: Olympus PEN-F Camera and 300mm Prime Lens, and Kenko-Tokina with their SLIK Monopod and AquaTech Camera Housing. After some time with it, I have to admit that two-factor authentication isn’t actually that bad. And Bart […]

Two-Factor Authorization Not as Bad as I Thought

After a couple of weeks with Apple and Google two-factor authentication running, I thought I should give you an update. After the initial huge pain from Google, and the very mild pain from adding two-factor authentication from Apple, they both settled down and I haven’t been challenged for an authorization code in the last couple […]

NC #577 Two-Factor Authentication with Google and then Apple, Hazel Video Field Guide, Security Bits

I bit the bullet this week and turned on two-factor authentication for both my NosillaCast Google Account and my Apple ID. It was an “interesting” adventure in the same vein as the Chinese curse, “May you have interesting times.” The two experiences were really different and I’m not sure which one was better. In-between those […]

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