• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-05-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on What is two-factor authentication, and which 2FA solutions are best?

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 still the main way we log in to our various accounts. That’s […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-04-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Firefox beefs up security and privacy, blocking third-party trackers, Facebook cookies and more

If you’ve never used the Firefox web browser before, Mozilla has promised you a soft landing: New users will not be tracked by default.On Tuesday, Mozilla promised that new users of the current Firefox 67.0.1 and subsequent versions will have […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-22-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google exposes G Suite issue that stored plain-text passwords on its servers for 14 years

Google has begun forcing “a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers” to change their passwords after an issue that inadvertently left passwords exposed for more than a decade.In a post to its Google Cloud blog Tuesday, the company outlined […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-22-2019
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google exposes G Suite issue that stored plain-text passwords on its servers for 15 years

Google has begun forcing “a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers” to change their passwords after an issue that inadvertently left passwords exposed for more than a decade.In a post to its Google Cloud blog Tuesday, the company outlined […]