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Nextcloud allows you to enforce groups to use two-factor authentication. Let's find out how to create a group and then add them to 2FA enforcement.

Singapore will bin the physical tokens used to provide two-factor authentication for some digital government services. The city-state operates "SingPass", a government service that connects Singapore's residents with 200 government services.

Nextcloud allows you to enforce groups to use two-factor authentication. With Nextcloud Hub you can enable 2FA globally, for individuals, or for groups.

The TrickBot trojan has a new trick up its sleeve for bypassing a new kind of two-factor authentication security method used by banks - by fooling its victims into downloading a malicious Android app. Researchers first discovered the mobile app after a September 2019 tweet by CERT-Bund flagging TrickBot using man-in-the-browser techniques.

If you want to enable two-factor authentication for Nextcloud on a per-user basis, it's just a simple app installation away.

If you want to enable two-factor authentication for Nextcloud on a per-user basis, it's just a simple app installation away. The first thing you must do is enable two-factor authentication for your Nextcloud server.

Saturday is the delayed deadline for UK banks and financial institutions to have implemented two-factor authentication for payment transactions. James Stickland, chief executive officer at authentication platform Veridium, said the huge growth in use of digital services made better authentication vital.

Echoworx, the industry leader in message encryption, unveiled enhancements to its OneWorld cloud-based security platform with the addition of user-centric two-factor authentication, enabling enterprises of all sizes to adopt best-in-class security protocols while improving user experience. "Enterprises, customers and employees want the enhanced security that multi-factor authentication provides," said Chris Peel, Echoworx Vice President Customer Engineering.

If your desktop of choice is Linux, you don't have to be without a 2FA tool, thanks to OTPClient.

If your desktop of choice is Linux, you don't have to be without a 2FA tool, thanks to OTPClient. What about those looking for an open source GUI 2FA tool for the Linux desktop? If that's you, there's OTPClient.