This low-cost device may be the world's best hope against account takeovers

Posted by bob on Dec 28, 2016 4:18 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Dan Goodin
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The past five years have witnessed a seemingly unending series of high-profile account take-overs. A growing consensus has emerged among security practitioners: even long, randomly generated passwords aren't sufficient for locking down e-mail and other types of online assets. According to the consensus, these assets need to be augmented with a second factor of authentication.

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