Until Google implements the QR code method, you can use 2FA apps instead of SMS verification. Using these apps ensures that you don’t have to worry about phishing attacks or traffic-pumping fraud.

SMS verification can be abused, with carriers as a weak point. SMS verification codes also promote something known as traffic pumping, a trick fraudsters use to get paid for messages sent.

Telegram has started offering some of its users free access to its Premium subscription in exchange for access to their phones for sending out login verification codes via SMS. The feature is ...

The login verification system, which is designed for the iOS and Android official Twitter apps, now avoids SMS altogether and instead uses an asymmetric cryptographic system that generates a ...

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.

Currently, Google uses SMS verification for two purposes -- security and abuse control, Richendrfer told Forbes and ZDNET. The first purpose is to ensure that the company is dealing with the same ...

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 ...

Code generators are better, and one is now built into iOS 15. But every little helps, so if you’re sent an SMS verification code and don’t get offered autofill, take a very close look at the ...

The first time you get an SMS verification code on your iPhone running iOS 17, you should see a prompt asking if you’d like to “Automatically Delete Verification Codes After Use?” ...

Android O contains a new API that's designed to help improve authentication of apps and services with SMS-based verification codes.