Text message two-factor authentication sounds like a security upgrade. It feels official. It looks responsible. Yet it often ...

SMS-delivered two-factor authentication will be dead in three years, according to National Australia Bank's general manager of technology, risk and security, Gary Blair. The emergence of banking on ...

Following two weeks of extreme chaos at Twitter, users are joining and fleeing the site in droves. More quietly, many are likely scrutinizing their accounts, checking their security settings, and ...

Fallback channels do not eliminate risk, but they can absorb shocks. They can turn isolated failures into recoverable moments ...

There are issues with using short message service (SMS) as a second authentication factor in Internet banking transactions, and banks in the region are split on using it to generate one-time passwords ...

A new SMS scam is now targeting Gmail users.

(CNN) — Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. The change will take place on March 20.

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn’t seem too severe.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recommends agencies phase out the use of SMS-delivered passwords in two-factor authentication. The days of federal agency employees using a one-time ...

Reddit on Wednesday reported a data breach. The good news? Nothing too major was likely stolen. The bad news? It involved a two-factor authentication scam. During the mid-June intrusion, the hacker ...