Google Authenticator’s long-awaited cloud 2FA feature carries hidden risk. An alternative app is your better bet. By Alaina Yee. Senior Editor, PCWorld Apr 27, 2023 7:38 am PDT.

Google users are especially encouraged to use an authenticator app for your 2FA codes. In addition to Google Authenticator, you can use other authentication apps like Duo, Authy, Microsoft ...

If you use a password to log in to an app or a website, you should add two-factor authentication (or 2FA) to protect your account. Using 2FA is one of the two things the Cybersecurity ...

In today’s digital world, where personal data is constantly at risk, protecting your online accounts is more crucial than ...

If you use Google Authenticator to set up 2FA, there are several ways to transfer your security keys to a new phone, depending on whether you’re using an iPhone or Android device and whether ...

Released on Monday for iOS and Android, the latest version of Google Authenticator lets you back up and sync your one-time 2FA codes to your Google account via the cloud.

As of today, Google Authenticator will now sync any one-time two-factor authentication (2FA) codes that it generates to users’ Google Accounts. Previously, one-time Authenticator codes were ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) goes beyond passwords to add a second layer of security to the authentication process. Organizations and users alike can better secure their data by making the ...

I've been a Google Authenticator user since the dawn of two-factor authentication (2FA) apps. Released in 2010, it's one of those apps that I use all the time for authenticating logins into ...

Mixing different 2FA options for the same account means you’ll have more than one way to log in. Google, for example, supports security keys, authenticator apps, push notifications sent to a ...