Security The Web messaging authentication Whistleblower warning: 2FA codes sent via SMS are trivially easy to intercept Apps or physical authenticators are a better choice By Shawn Knight June 18 ...

A new report found that around a million two-factor authentication codes sent by text message appear to have been intercepted. A tech industry whistleblower revealed that the 2FA security codes ...

One-time SMS codes are widely used as the second checkpoint in two-factor authentication (2FA) to sign into everything from banking apps to email accounts. As I've written before, though, SMS is ...

The advantage of 2FA is that you can secure your account with a six-digit code generated by the authenticator app, in addition to your password.