Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the ...

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 ...

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SMS codes have long been less secure than other forms of authentication. With QR codes, Google aims to reduce users' dependency on carriers for account verification.

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.

With SMS an unsecure method of authentication, Google is eyeing a more robust solution with QR codes.

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

In most cases, this involves receiving SMS codes for verification. But SMS codes are not as secure as they seem. I have stopped using them entirely, and you should consider doing the same. Here is ...

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