Authenticator apps are available for every popular mobile platform, including iOS (shown here), Android, and Windows Phone Passwords alone are hopelessly weak and fragile security measures. Don’t be ...

The idea behind 2FA is simple. You either have it enabled or you don't. You'd assume that enabled means that your account is ...

If you use Microsoft’s Authenticator app on your mobile phone as a password manager, here’s some bad news: Microsoft is discontinuing the “autofill” password management functionality in Authenticator.

Microsoft is making storing and syncing passwords across devices easier, or at least a bit less complicated. Over the coming months, the tech giant will discontinue autofill within Microsoft ...

Microsoft Authenticator, a popular app for generating 2FA codes and storing passwords, has supported password autofill for years. However, that is all going by the wayside. Here's how to save your ...

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Microsoft may not kill or nerf products and services with the same rigor as Google, but it’ll still retool its offerings. Case in point: Microsoft Authenticator, which has slowly lost features this ...

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Your Google Authenticator one-time codes are no longer trapped if you lose the device that stores them. An update to Authenticator for Android and iOS now stores backups of codes in your Google ...

Microsoft is a prolific supporter of using passkeys over passwords. Authenticator will no longer save your passwords. But Authenticator can't be your comprehensive passkey manager. The Edge browser ...

The Microsoft Authenticator app for consumers can now automatically fill out address and payment information in Web site forms when using Android mobile devices, on top of filling out password fields.

I've had my authenticator for years. Taking the sound advice of persons wiser than me, I picked up an authenticator way before it was cool. No hackers or n'er-do-wells were getting into my account and ...