Until a while ago I was using Microsoft Authenticator, but I had to switch devices; there was a cloud backup option, I did that and swapped devices. When I tried to restore the backup, the backup just ...

Microsoft wants you to ditch your password. For good, this time. The company announced in a blog post Wednesday that it will give users the option to access their accounts without using a password.

As far as I know, any authenticator works offline. Don’t ask me how the service recognizes that the code is valid even without communicating with the authenticator. Maybe the code to be validated has ...