What's a verification code, and why are they so important? Six-digit verification codes are a form of two-factor authentication, a process that helps keep your important online accounts secure. For ...

Microsoft has long recommended that customers enable multifactor authentication (MFA) as a way of better protecting Active Directory and Azure AD accounts. Without MFA, anyone with access to a valid ...

Ever since Google enabled two-step verification for Gmail and other tied authentication protocols in its ecosystem, SMS codes ...

Charlie and Jim were best friends, and Patricia Longacre lost them both. "I felt like I should be here looking or him, but I needed to be in California for my dad’s funeral," Longacre said. Charlie ...

A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The exposed server ...

Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Twitter, Sony, Uber, Dropbox, Amazon... the list goes on. It’s strikingly ironic—these companies are rightly pushing us to better secure our apps and services with ...

A developer has reported injected ads in their Google verification text message. The Google Messages app subsequently marked it as spam. Google has since clarified that it didn’t inject this ad into ...