With around 1.8 billion active users worldwide, Gmail remains the most popular email service by far. Google was also one of the first to pioneer and popularize two-factor authentication (2FA).

The problem with 2FA is that often a distinction isn’t made between SMS-based 2FA, which sends a code to the user via ... hacker is able to repeat the same logic of password recovery via SMS ...

You would need to type in a code included in that text ... about how a hacker was able to intercept those SMS messages and reroute them, thanks to a text-based 2FA. “While I was on a Google ...

While the best way (in my opinion, at least) to do 2FA is via an app like Google Authenticator, many companies still authenticate via SMS codes, sending them via SMS and email. Now, these codes ...

Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. The change will take place on March 20, CNN ...

Twitter announced today that users will finally be able to disable SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for their accounts, and use an alternative method only, such as a mobile one-time code ...