Zephin Livingston is a former staff reviewer at Forbes Advisor, specializing in testing and reviewing privacy and security software, like VPNs, antivirus software, password managers and more. Zephin ...

– L2TP over IPsec: User authentication by MS-CHAP v2 password, two-factor token, certificate, machine authentication by shared secret or certificate. macOS can also use Kerberos machine authentication ...

I have setup a VPN connection between an OS X 10.7.4 client and OS X 10.8.2 server that sporadically fails with a "pppd: MS-CHAP authentication failed" client log entry. The server reports "CHAP peer ...

Enterprise authentication strategies are moving away from reliance on traditional VPNs and passwords toward multi-protocol approaches that combine SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and MFA. Studies show ...

In “Two-Factor Authentication, Two-Step Verification, and 1Password” (10 July 2023), I explained that for true two-factor authentication, you needed to acquire your time-based one-time password (TOTP) ...

We need 2-factor authentication on our VPN servers. We used Duo for 2-factor on our apps. We have a lot of Linux users. Several leading VPN providers do not integrate with Linux (e.g. VPN secure does ...

A white paper from a U.K. security consulting firm is a handy item to download if you are considering IPSec VPNs, because it offers some sound advice on setting up a secure VPN regardless of what ...

If Microsoft Authenticator is showing the wrong location of the sign-in request, here is how you can fix the problem. It could happen due to a VPN or proxy, your OS’s location data being inaccurate, ...

If you use DuckDuckGo's VPN, your traffic doesn't appear to be visible the company.