You lock your doors—why not your accounts? Two-Factor authentication is your last line of online defense. Using a mobile authenticator app isn't hard to set up. Yeah, it takes extra seconds to get ...

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 ...

It's just not safe.

Update, Feb. 26, 2025: This story, originally published Feb. 23, now includes additional commentary regarding the potential security implications of the decision to deprecate SMS from the Gmail ...