If you have logged in recently with your Apple ID and requested an SMS-based second-factor verification code instead of using the trusted device method, you might have noticed Apple made a change to ...

A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their ...

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 ...

We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and ...

Instagram has some security measures in place to ensure hackers and scammers can’t access your account. Two-factor authentication is one of them, but sometimes it doesn’t work. Today, we’ll show you ...

Google is now planning to phase out the use of SMS authentication for Gmail, and the company is looking towards using other methods that are far safer and more convenient than text messages. Various ...

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 ...

You'll soon see a big change in how your Gmail account is secured and your two-factor authenticated logins are handled. Google has said it's planning to stop sending 2FA codes via text message to ...

SMS two-factor authentication is no longer available on Twitter, unless you pay for Twitter Blue. Fortunately, if your an iPhone user, there's a better option anyway. With more than a decade of ...

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 ...