How to Use two-factor authentication in a Sentence

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  • Among them: Was it protected by a strong password and any form of two-factor authentication?
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The report also warns if your master password is weak and zings you for not using two-factor authentication.
    — PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The most common form of two-factor authentication — or 2FA — relies on text messages.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Without cell phones, people might not be able to use two-factor authentication to get into email and other accounts.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The same account also failed to activate two-factor authentication, enabling the hackers to gain easy access once the password had been guessed.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Then tap Next Follow the instructions to set up your preferred two-factor authentication (2FA) method.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The company has added fixes like end-to-end encryption of its audio and video and two-factor authentication to address this issue.
    — Kaz Weida, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Turning on two-factor authentication for your online accounts can be a pain.
    — Shara Tibken, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Google is streamlining the process of setting up two-factor authentication (2FA).
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 May 2024
  • Make sure your online accounts are secured and use two-factor authentication.
    — Sen Nguyen, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • All three touted their security features, like two-factor authentication, and how easy their machines are to use.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • More often than anyone would like to admit, many are taking shortcuts (reusing passwords, disabling two-factor authentication and so on) to make their lives easier.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Customers can log in to Amazon using just their devices’ biometrics and start shopping without the need to enter a password or follow through with two-factor authentication (2FA) through email or text.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The company also enabled two-factor authentication for all 80 million active Roku accounts, even for users whose information was not part of the breach.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Apple adds that its own support representatives will never send its users a link to a website and ask them to sign in, or to provide your password, device passcode, or two-factor authentication code.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 July 2024
  • For example, a hacker might call a company’s help desk, pretending to be an employee, and ask to reset their two-factor authentication.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Anyone with a social media account on Facebook or Instagram needs to go ahead and turn on two-factor authentication in their privacy settings.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Another simple way to deter these kinds of attacks is by using two-factor authentication.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The city has since taken steps to improve its cyber security, including changing passwords and adding two-factor authentication, Gunn said.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The tips include picking a strong password and not sharing it across platforms, keeping an eye out for malicious software, and using two-factor authentication on Facebook and Instagram accounts.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2024
  • Clearly, she also has not been bothered to protect her Facebook account using two-factor authentication.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 23 June 2023
  • The broad strategy is to get the target off their email and into channels like Signal, Telegram, or WhatsApp, or possibly a personal email address that may not have two-factor authentication and threat monitoring set up.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Speaking of surveillance business models, Meta has updated the way two-factor authentication works on Facebook.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The group used info-stealing malware to grab credentials for companies’ Snowflake accounts and then easily logged into any accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication enabled.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 12 July 2024
  • Advanced Protection will also still offer users the option of enabling the service with traditional two-factor authentication where the hardware token is the second factor.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 10 July 2024
  • Users have also previously reported issues with the app’s two-factor authentication tool, seeing replies listed above a tweet rather than below it and seeing old tweets show up repeatedly in their feed or mentions.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 24 May 2023
  • The grounds for account deletion are security-based, with older, dormant, accounts being far more likely to get compromised due to poor password protection and lack of two-factor authentication.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Teach them how to create (and keep secret) strong passwords for social media accounts, set up two-factor authentication, and practice basic smartphone security.
    — Pia Ceres, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Freezing your credit file, using a password manager and using two-factor authentication for your financial accounts with a biometric passcode can also be beneficial.
    — Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Increasingly, criminal schemes are being deployed using phishing techniques through fake login pages and websites that capture your data, including passwords and two-factor authentication tokens.
    — Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

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