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All four offer family plans, too: $40/year at Bitwarden, $48 at LastPass, $59.88 for 1Password, and $89.99 for Dashlane (that covers Premium features since there’s no multiple-user Essentials option). Until March, LastPass and Bitwarden both offered unlimited free versions (at the cost of less-elegant interfaces than 1Password and Dashlane), but then LastPass restricted its no-charge edition to access on either mobile devices or laptops and desktops. “We gave people an opportunity to upgrad...

Will Vote-by-App Ever Be Safe? Even with strong security measures, Internet voting is still vulnerable to abuse from state-sponsored actors and malicious insiders. The push for online voting has been happening for years, but now that a major pandemic has hit the US, there is more incentive than ever for states and counties to try out online and mobile voting services. This summer, Delaware and West Virginia will allow online voting in their primaries, and New Jersey is also testing it in a mun...

Beef Up Your Security Leaks and hacks we’ve read about in recent years make it clear that passwords alone aren’t enough to protect your online bank account or social media accounts. Two-factor authentication (2FA or MFA, for multifactor authentication) adds another layer of protection, and PCMag writers frequently exhort our audience to use it. Authenticator apps, such as Authy, Google Authenticator, or Microsoft Authenticator, enable one of the more-secure forms of 2FA. What Is Two-Factor...

How to Generate Two-Factor Authentication Codes in 1Password 1Password is one of our favorite password managers for a good reason. It has excellent features, such as the ability to generate one-time passwords that you can quickly enter when logging in to your online accounts. Yes, 1Password can store your passwords and be your default authenticator app, too. Before we show you how to set up two-factor authentication codes for various websites in 1Password, let’s start by talking about the pro...

Macworld iOS 15 wishlist: 10 ways Apple can make our iPhones better iOS 14 was great, but a lot more needs to be done. body> Last years iOS 14 release was one of the best iPhone updates yet. Apple didnt necessarily deliver everything on our wishlist from last spring, but it made big strides on a surprising number of them. Looking forward to iOS 15, we still want Apple to tackle some of our evergreen complaints (Siri), but the addition of big changes like the App Library and home screen ...

April 6, 2021 Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. Meanwhile, if you’re a Facebook product user and want to learn if your data was leaked, there are eas...

But if you use Instagram, make sure youre wary of any unusual messages in your DMs. Instagram has warned users about a new scam that is circulating that tries to steal your login details by faking a copyright violation. While the message appears to be from the Instagram Copyright Help Centre, Instagram has confirmed that it will never DM users about copyright violations, and advises that users should not click or reply on any links in the messages. Instagram has warned users about a new scam th...

Among Us Goes On Sale Alongside Launch of Airship Map The long-awaited Among Us map known as the Airship is finally out now which is great news for all the existing players who’ve been waiting for it to launch. For those who haven’t yet gotten the game or those who want to get it on another platform, there’s more good news: The game’s on sale right now across all of the marketplaces that it’s sold on including the Epic Games Store and Steam for the PC versions as well as the Nintendo...

Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. Now we’re learning about an entire ecosystem of companies that anyone could use to silently intercept text messages intended for other mobile users. Security researcher “Lucky225” worked with Vice.c...

Published: March 17, 2021 12:22 PM IST Text messages can be redirected by hackers to receive a user’s OTP and other information in a potential SMS attack reported by Joseph Cox of Vice. He wrote in his report that a hacker could gain access to his WhatsApp account as well, apart from Bumble and Postmates accounts. Also Read - Almost 5,000 Indian mobile users are stalking their partners using spyware: Report “Looking down at...