A million two-factor authentication codes sent via SMS passed through an obscure third-party company. Here's how it happened and why it's a problem.

Authentication through device code flow is designed for logging printers, smart TVs, and similar devices into accounts. These devices typically don’t support browsers, ...

Google is not the only company to move away from SMS for 2FA. Last year, Evernote removed SMS from its service , and the secure messaging app Signal removed it in 2022 . X, Apple and Microsoft ...

It's not safe to have security codes texted to your phone. Luckily, there are other ways to log into your accounts.

Descope’s answer to that, nOTP (“no-tee-pee”), uses WhatsApp as the authentication channel, a platform chosen by the company because of its popularity among consumers and its use of end-to ...

One-time SMS codes are widely used as the second checkpoint in two-factor authentication (2FA) to sign into everything from banking apps to email accounts. As I've written before, though, SMS is ...

Gmail 2FA Tools: QR Codes, Passkeys to Replace SMS. The alternatives that Google has in mind include the use of QR codes, which will help the user verify their logins to Gmail and other Google ...

The Swoop PKI Platform—Running on Swoop’s Proprietary Authentication Protocols Connects Over 8 Billion Devices Globally Into One Secure System ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Swoop In Technologies LLC, a next ...

This Week in Business Tech News Business Tech News #1 – Gmail is killing SMS 2 Factor Authentication login codes in favor of this instead. As first reported by another contributor, Gmail is ...

Iris Diagnostics, a California manufacturer of medical diagnostic devices, is integrating an RFID-based authentication system into its iQ200 Automated Urinalysis System. This, it hopes, will help ...