In an email conversation with Forbes published in a story on Sunday, Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer described this upcoming change. Instead of entering your number and getting a six-digit code ...

It's just not safe.

A username and password just won’t cut it anymore. Users around the world logging into Gmail have often relied on Google SMS pings to securely access their accounts, but that’s changing. Google now ...

Multifactor authentication that uses SMS messaging as a second factor is vulnerable to simple hacks. User education is the best defense. As our world moves away from password-based authentication to ...

Advertisers are ramping up SMS short code marketing, according to a new Nielsen Mobile report. President-elect Barack Obama's text message revealing his pick for vice president remains the most ...

SMS is widely regarded as an insecure form of two-factor authentication, and another example of this has just emerged. A carrier looks to be injecting ads into the Google verification code used to ...

A security flaw has been discovered in the iPhone OS that could allow attackers to gain root access to the iPhone OS and allow them to install and execute malicious programs at will. Charlie Miller ...

Students this month may be voting on a referendum calling for the purchase of a university SMS code to facilitate communication and information dissemination on the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus. An ...

Students this month may be voting on a referendum calling for the purchase of a university SMS code to facilitate communication and information dissemination on the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus. An ...

CAMPBELL, Calif., September 25, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), one of the industry’s most integrated customer experience (CX) platform providers, has launched 8x8 Omni Shield ...

Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Twitter, Sony, Uber, Dropbox, Amazon... the list goes on. It’s strikingly ironic—these companies are rightly pushing us to better secure our apps and services with ...