Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, March 28, 2025: This story, originally published March ...

While Crypto.com has improved its security, risks like potential interception of 2FA codes via SIM swapping and the ...

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 ...

Users of the Twilio Authy Authenticator app may have had their phone number exposed to hackers. While the leak exposed personally identifiable information, it did not directly compromise accounts.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has emerged as a critical tool to prevent cybercrime. This functionality provides an additional layer of security beyond traditional password-based authentication. By ...

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The claim was first amplified by a small cybersecurity firm, Underdark AI, which posted about it on LinkedIn. According to their write-up, a hacker going by "Machine1337" is offering the data on a ...

Data breaches are most often the work of external bad actors, but sometimes the call comes from inside the house. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that hackers paid off support ...