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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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) ...

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, ...