Starting today, Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for all but paying users following a decision that, not unlike other recent moves by the social media giant, has been met ...

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 ...

Elon Musk disabled specific microservices at Twitter, which likely included Twitter SMS 2FA. If you used text messages to prove your identity when logging into Twitter, you wouldn’t be able to do that ...

Twitter has made a lot of changes under Elon Musk, many of which have been unpopular with its users. The latest one continues the trend. Starting today, non-paying users can no longer use SMS ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter users are having a case of the blues, or not, as may be the case this week with the upcoming removal of SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) from non-subscribers. On Feb. 15 in ...

Many Twitter users have been presented with a message telling them that SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) will be removed next month. According to Twitter, only subscribers to its premium ...

SMS text messages are a weak, dangerous way of providing two-factor authentication codes, as we discussed years ago in “Facebook Shows Why SMS Isn’t Ideal for Two-Factor Authentication” (19 February ...

Our reader poll showed overwhelming support for 2FA even in the wake of a bypass tool being released — although lingering concerns remain. The author of a recently released penetration testing tool ...

Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. The change will take place on March 20, CNN ...

When Google restricted the use of SMS and Call Log permissions in Android apps in March 2019, one of the positive effects was that credential-stealing apps lost the option to abuse these permissions ...