You've likely encountered SMS messages, even if you didn't know it. Here's how they work—and why scammers love them. Trillions of text messages are sent and ...

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SMS and RCS are communication protocols. While SMS relies on simplicity and ubiquity, RCS offers major feature upgrades in every other area. SMS is limited to short and plain texts, while RCS lets you ...

The complete digitalization of the modern world has brought not only great opportunities for people and have made their life easier, but it also put their security at great risk, because the data ...

At Black Hat, a research duo from FYEO demonstrate a technique they call smishmash to prove that using text messaging for your second factor is very risky. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the ...

Trillions of text messages are sent and received via SMS-enabled devices every day, but have you ever stopped to ask, “What is SMS, exactly?” One of the oldest forms of mobile messaging, SMS messages ...