The rise of two-factor authentication has made life much harder for hackers, as stealing a password alone is no longer enough to gain access to a system. With two-factor authentication in place, you ...

SMS-based two factor authentication has been touted as a way of improving online banking security but Westpac's head of information security disagrees. The National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank ...

Twitter has finally done the impossible: it’s allowing users to enroll for its two-factor authentication (2FA) program without requiring a phone number. What’s more, it’s also providing an option to ...

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 ...

Google is now planning to phase out the use of SMS authentication for Gmail, and the company is looking towards using other methods that are far safer and more convenient than text messages. Various ...

To non-Twitter Blue subscribers, those users now have 30 days to get on the Blue train or risk having their SMS two-factor authentication turned off. The new policy from Twitter and CEO Elon Musk was ...

SMS two-factor authentication is no longer available on Twitter, unless you pay for Twitter Blue. Fortunately, if your an iPhone user, there's a better option anyway. With more than a decade of ...

Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...

Android O could make SMS authentication easier with a new API allowing for a more streamlined process. The new API was discovered by a poster in XDA-developers. This new API streamlines the entire ...