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Passwordless Phone Login: SMS OTP Cooldown and Max Attempts

Treat passwordless phone login as a small SMS OTP state machine, not as two Express or Node.js handlers named "send" and "check." For an edtech contact form, the useful decision ru...

Simple 2FA Login SMS APIs — Choosing OTP Verification Over Direct Send

Short answer: for a property-management login, start with a dedicated SMS OTP flow, then keep direct SMS send for exceptional notices. The OTP endpoint owns code generation and mat...

Android SMS Retriever API: A Practical Guide for OTP Verification

OTP-based phone verification is extremely common in Android applications.Continue reading on Medium »

Beyond Passwords: How Attackers Abuse Device Code Authentication

Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) analysts uncovered a device code phishing campaign that impersonates trusted brands, including Microsoft, Syncfusion, and Mimecast, to trick u...

Microsoft Authenticator - Microsoft Corporation

Use Microsoft Authenticator for easy, secure sign-ins for all your online accounts using multi-factor authentication, passwordless, or password autofill. You also have additional a...

An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentest...

Swipe-to-Leak: OTP Theft via an Implicit Broadcast on Notification Dismiss

How dismissing a push notification let any zero-permission app on the device read the OTP inside it. No root, no accessibility service, no…Continue reading on Medium »

WhatsApp Passkeys Reach 1 Billion Users as Two-Step Verification Gets Stronger Passwords

WhatsApp has confirmed that more than 1 billion people now use passkeys to log into the messaging app, marking one of the largest passwordless authentication rollouts in consumer t...

BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs

Telco says accounts are secure as customers report hundreds of mystery codes arriving in rapid bursts

Mastercard, Google push past passwords

The card network and the tech titan aim to reduce the need for one-time passwords and catalyze more use of biometric payments in the country.

39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

Passkeys eliminate many password-based attacks, but researchers have documented 39 methods for compromising authentication built around them. Token explains how attackers can abuse...

Tempo Mails Adds Password Protected Reusable Temporary Email Access

Tempo Mails, a web-based temporary email service, has announced the addition of password-protected reusable inbox access to its disposable email platform. The feature allows users...

QR-code login can be phished. Here is how we closed the hole

QR-code login looks safe. You scan a code, approve on your phone, and the computer is signed in. No password typed, nothing to phish. We run ClientN, an anonymous sign-in service,...

WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of WhatsApp account security features, including support for multiple passkeys to a single account to help users with both iOS and Android devices s...