Many services use two-factor authentication nowadays, where your phone or email address gets sent a code that you must enter as part of the login process into an online service. These codes are one ...

Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 ...

The JWT MUST be digitally signed or integrity protected with a Message Authentication Code (MAC). The authorization server MUST reject JWTs if signature or integrity protection validation fails.

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, ...

The new QR code-based key authentication feature is available to ensure you’re communicating with the person you want to communicate with. Once the feature is available, you can access details by ...

Apple is always adding new features to its software, but every now and then a change arrives that it’s hard to live without. One such killer feature lets you autofill two-factor authentication codes, ...

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 ...

We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and ...

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 one ...

A major security incident has come to light involving the exposure of one million two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, revealing vulnerabilities in the authentication system widely used by major ...

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 ...