Google Messages has merged the live viewfinder with your camera roll. This new UI is what appears after tapping the “Gallery” icon in a conversation. When taking a new picture or video, you’ll always ...

FirstBank of Nigeria has announced an upward review of its transaction alert fee, raising the charge from N4 to N6 per SMS. In a customer notice seen on Wednesday, the bank attributed the increase ...

Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) have raised their short message service (SMS) alert charges by 50 per cent with effect from today, May 1. Among the banks are Guaranty Trust Bank, Ecobank as well as ...

But a different feature entirely was added in a recent iOS update—‘Critical Messages’—that enables apps to send your iPhone highly important messages via SMS. Here’s how it works.

Google is officially moving away from using SMS messages in its Gmail account two-factor authenticator. Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes, “we want to move away from sending SMS ...

Google uses SMS codes to both verify that it’s dealing with the same person who created or owns a Gmail account, and as a deterrent to prevent criminals from creating “thousands of Gmail ...

Turns out, while 2FA itself is a great way to protect your online security, the SMS method for delivering codes is not. In fact, hackers can bypass SMS 2FA. And that’s why Google is changing up ...

Instead of entering your number and getting a six-digit code via SMS, you'll see a QR code that you scan with your phone's camera. Richendrfer said Google is making this switch to "reduce the ...

Google is planning to end support for SMS-based two-factor authentication in Gmail, Forbes reports. Sending a code to your personal phone via text message has long been an option Google offered to ...

Ever since Google enabled two-step verification for Gmail and other tied authentication protocols in its ecosystem, SMS codes have been a mainstay. But according to security analyses, SMS codes ...

But by the minute, scammers are thinking of new ways to deceive unsuspecting victims. SMS spoofing is one of their latest tricks. If you were able to tell a scam by the sender’s email address ...

The Thailand police located a van and arrested its driver for using an SMS blaster device to spam over 100,000 SMS phishing texts an hour to people living in Bangkok. The device, which reportedly ...