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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 ...
SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping ...
Multi-factor authentication via text leaves you open to attacks. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps and ad-blocking software. I also report ...
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 ...
MFA, or Multi-Factor Authentication, has proliferated throughout our computing lives over the last decade. It largely began ...
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