Major companies' two-factor authentication offerings fall short

With passwords increasingly being seen as insufficient to properly secure access to websites, more and more companies are turning to two-factor authentication. New research from digital identity management experts Dashlane looks at how some of the biggest consumer websites are protecting their users. It looks at 17 of the UK’s most popular sites and finds only four get top marks for their 2FA offerings. Researchers tested each website on three 2FA criteria, awarding one point for SMS or email authentication, one point for software tokens, and three points for hardware tokens, such as YubiKey or U2F authentication, for a maximum… [Continue Reading]