Why ANY Two-Factor Is Better Than No Two-Factor

☀️ You may have heard that hackers can sometimes beat two-factor authentication. It's true, but that doesn't make it useless. I'll describe how each type of two-factor works, which ones hackers can trick, and why skipping 2FA is still the riskiest choice of all.

☀️ Two-factor authentication works
Two-factor authentication is not useless, even though hackers may have found ways around it in some instances. Without 2FA, all a hacker needs is your password. With 2FA, they need much more. Turn on two-factor for any account you can.

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Chapters
0:00 Why ANY Two-Factor Is Better Than No Two-Factor
1:29 Common approaches to two-factor
4:38 Exploiting 2FA
6:14 Is SMS the weakest link?
7:25 The weakest link is no 2FA at all

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