After failing to receive SMS text messages from five financial services websites that use them for two-factor authentication codes, Adam Engst resolved his problem with a quick call to T-Mobile to ...

If your bank account is protected by SMS-based 2FA, for instance, they'll receive the code on their own device, authenticate themselves, and break into your account.

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.

Online SMS reception services provide a straightforward solution, enabling users to receive verification codes swiftly via virtual phone numbers.

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

For travelers, few frustrations are as common as being locked out of online accounts because a verification code never ...

However, you might just want to anyway, because there are plenty of services out there that still use text messages, and only text messages, to send you login codes.

They need to find a way to link account credentials to the SMS code you will then receive, and they need to breach that account inside that code’s time window.