A million two-factor authentication codes sent via SMS passed through an obscure third-party company. Here's how it happened ...

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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 ...

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 ...

When companies generate messages with one of these so-called two-factor authentication codes, they almost never send them directly. Instead they outsource the job, passing the codes through a ...

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SMS-based two-factor authentication not as reliable as many think – Report An investigation by Bloomberg and Lighthouse Reports shows that 2FA codes sent via text messages are not as secure as ...