When people talk about receiving SMS without a phone, what they really mean is that the message is redirected to a digital ...
Virtual numbers are now a key tool to manage complicated digital tasks across platforms. They help users receive SMS ...
SMS text messages are a weak, dangerous way of providing two-factor authentication codes, as we discussed years ago in “Facebook Shows Why SMS Isn’t Ideal for Two-Factor Authentication” (19 February ...
Do you receive login security codes for your online accounts via text message? These are the six- or seven-digit numbers sent via SMS that you need to enter along with your password when trying to ...
We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and ...
At Black Hat, a research duo from FYEO demonstrate a technique they call smishmash to prove that using text messaging for your second factor is very risky. Multi-factor authentication is chic these ...