In just two weeks, the ban on SMS two-factor authentication for non-subscribers on Twitter will go into effect, a move blasted by the majority of the security community.

While Twitter CEO Elon Musk has defended the move as a way to protect user security, most leaders aren’t buying it.

“Just from a purely pragmatic standpoint, this is basically stripping away the lowest threshold of 2FA out there without any sort of viable or easy replacement,” Andrew Shikiar, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, told SC Media.


More

International Security Journal: The role of MFA in the fight against phishing

Based on FIDO Alliance and W3C standards, passkeys replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs.This requires…

Read More →

Gear Patrol: Want a Faster, More Secure Way of Logging into X on Your iPhone? Use a Passkey

X (formerly Twitter) has introduced passkeys for iPhone users as an alternative to traditional passwords.…

Read More →

ITPro: The end of passwords – and how businesses will embrace it

Big tech firms including Microsoft, Apple and Google have been moving towards a passwordless future for several years, with solutions…

Read More →