Gmail to Replace SMS Authentication with QR Code Scanning All Details
Report According to Google, SMS codes come with many security challenges. Company spokesman Ross Richendrfer and his colleague Kimberly Samra told Publication that SMS codes can be easily fishing, users do not always keep access to the device on which the code has been sent and their security depends on the procts of mobile carriers. Richendrfer said, “If a fraudster can easily control someone’s phone number, the security value of SMS ends.”
Google SMS uses verification for two main purposes – security and abuse control. The first objective is to ensure that the user is the person who was already using an account and second, stopping that no one can create thousands of gmail accounts by cheating.
A large fraud associated with SMS codes that Google has recently identified is ‘traffic pumping’. It is also called ‘Artificial Traffic Inflation’ and ‘Toll Fraud’. According to Google, “This happens when fraudsters motivate online service providers to send large -scale bulk SMS and earn money for every delivered SMS.” This type of fraud is also planning to eliminate Google SMS-based authentication.
Forbes’s report further states that Google will re -design its verification system in the coming months. Richendrfer said, “Now users will be shown a QR code instead of entering their numbers and receiving a 6-fit code, which they have to scan from their phone’s camera app.” This will not only improve security, but users will not even need to type the code.
This new step of Google is being considered a major improvement in security and other tech companies can also move in this direction in the coming time.
