UAE banks are phasing out SMS OTPs for online card payments starting January 6, 2026, due to security risks like SIM-swapping ...

GCash will be sending OTPs through their app instead of via SMS in 2026 to improve overall security and convenience.

From January 6, 2026, major banks in the UAE will no longer send one‑time passwords by text message for online card ...

GCASH, the Philippines’ leading finance superapp and largest cashless ecosystem, is rolling out its newest security feature: ...

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 ...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming a mandatory security requirement for all businesses across all sectors. The most recent example is the new version of ...

Every second counts when your customer receives a fraud alert at 3am. The difference between a blocked card and a drained account often comes down to how quickly that message arrives. For financial ...

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 ...

Authentication is complex and not enough people use it, but no-code developer Descope thinks it has found the answer: WhatsApp. This week, US startup Descope is announcing what it claims is a new way ...

On Feb. 15, Twitter announced in a blog post that it will no longer allow users who don’t pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to use text message-based two-factor authentication to protect their ...