Google has confirmed it will phase out the use of SMS text messages for multi-factor authentication in favor of more secure technologies.… The search-and-ads giant introduced SMS distribution of ...

It's just not safe.

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 ...

Google is shaking up its two-factor authentication system in Gmail. In an exchange with Forbes, a Google spokesperson confirmed that the company is working on ditching SMS text messages as a form of ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk disabled specific microservices at Twitter, which likely included Twitter SMS 2FA. If you used text messages to prove your identity when logging into Twitter, you wouldn’t be able to do that ...