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With the ongoing onslaught of high profile security breaches, it’s fast become a no-brainer that we should use different passwords for each service we subscribe to, and that they should be long and complex. Unfortunately, not everyone may be able to remember something like ‘ZG9uJ3QgZG8gdGhpcw==’, so many services have implemented Multi Factor Authentication to help better defend users.
Password based authentication has long since remained the most popular way of logging in to common services. It’s something a user knows. Multi-Factor Authentication serves to add various identifying factors to make it harder for attackers to access accounts that aren’t theirs. Other examples of factors we can add include something a user has (cryptographic token, phone) or something a user is (features, such as biometrics).
Two Factors are better than one