Google Authenticator is a two-step verification software used to keep your Google account and its related apps and programs more secure.

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The age of automated authentication through biometric scanning is almost here. Yet even in this time of Apple’s Face ID, Windows 10’s Hello, and the up-and-coming FIDO2 specification, passwords are ...

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Two-step and two-factor authentication are two types of enhanced security that Apple uses to keep your Apple ID account safe.