Google plans to replace SMS verification with QR codes due to phishing risks and security vulnerabilities exploited by scammers. QR codes will eliminate the need to enter security codes when ...

Google is experimenting with a new way for Android users to confirm the identity of people they message. The company has ...

Why SMS verification carries security risks SMS are unencrypted and vulnerable to interception SMS verification usually takes the form of a short string of numbers, usually around six digits long.

But SMS verification controls are not 100% fraud-proof as mobile phone porting is becoming prevalent.

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, ...

It turns out that it’s extremely tedious to implement SMS verification codes that work reliably. “Initially, when I started looking at this problem at Zenly, we only had one provider.

Starting next week Google will overhaul its two-step verification (2SV) procedure and replace one-time codes sent via SMS with prompts shown on the user's smartphone.

Twitter’s new login verification system uses a cryptographic scheme and challenge and response and no SMS codes.

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 ...

Two-factor authentication via SMS code can be a huge headache if you’re somewhere that you can’t receive text messages, whether that’s a remote location or on a plane. So Facebook invented a ...