How to Use two-factor authentication in a Sentence

two-factor authentication

noun

• 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
• The text messages asking Moss to authenticate her account were authentic: they were sent by Chase Bank as part of its two-factor authentication system, designed to enhance customer security.
  — Anna Werner [e-mail], CBS News, 26 May 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024