Educational software deployment in Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges due to intermittent internet connectivity and limited digital payment infrastructure. This necessitates offline-first ...

Modern civilization relies on computers and the Internet. Web services and microservices make many processes more accessible, often without users realizing the extent of their dependency. As ...

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 seconds. The new attack, named ...

Aviroop Biswas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. The Institute for Work & Health is supported in part through ...

HMAC stands for Hash-Based Message Authentication Code. It is a security mechanism used to verify the integrity and authenticity of a message exchanged between a client and a server.

SMS-based multifactor authentication is now so badly compromised that it has become a major vector for fraud, writes Veena Dandapani, of First Bank. A customer gets a text message from their bank. It ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

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, ...

As previewed last year, Google Messages is beginning to roll out QR code-based key verification to confirm that you’re “communicating with the person you intend to.” Once available, open a ...

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 ...