Update, Feb. 26, 2025: This story, originally published Feb. 23, now includes additional commentary regarding the potential security implications of the decision to deprecate SMS from the Gmail ...

Apple's effort to develop a standardized format for one-time passcodes sent through SMS messages is moving forward with the help of Google engineers, as the proposal this month garnered official ...

SMS messages are something of a security disaster. These unencrypted, open-form text messages travel across multiple unsecured networks, from sender to recipient. The system is a throwback to a ...