Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Instagram became the latest in a long line of services over the years to offer users two-factor authentication this week. Kevin Systrom, co-founder and CEO of the Facebook-owned mobile photo-sharing app announced the feature on its blog Thursday afternoon. With the feature – accessible via Settin...

Facebook Unveils 'Delegated Recovery' to Replace Traditional Password Recovery Methods

How do you reset the password for your Facebook account if your primary email account also gets hacked? Using SMS-based security code or maybe answering the security questions? Well, it's 2017, and we are still forced to depend on insecure and unreliable password reset schemes like email-based or...

Facebook Tackles Account Recovery with Delegated Recovery Protocol

Account recovery, the second fiddle to authentication, still largely hinges on insecure schemes such as security questions or email-based verification for password resets and the like. Facebook today at the Enigma Conference in Oakland, Calif., offered a more modern solution called Delegated...