{"id":909858,"date":"2025-02-27T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909858"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:46:57","slug":"google-is-making-this-big-change-to-the-way-you-login-to-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/google-is-making-this-big-change-to-the-way-you-login-to-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is making this Big change to the way you login to Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is phasing out SMS-based authentication for Gmail in favour of a more secure QR code system. The tech giant will be implementing this change later this year, aiming to bolster account security and reduce reliance on vulnerable text message codes, a report has said.This move aligns with the broader industry trend of moving away from traditional passwords and SMS-based authentication, which are susceptible to phishing attacks and other security vulnerabilities, Ross Richendrfer, Google&#8217;s head of security and privacy public relations, told Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Richendrfer alsi also saod that users will soon be prompted to scan a QR code to verify their phone numbers, replacing the current two-factor authentication method that involves typing in a code received via SMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is phasing out SMS-based authentication for Gmail in favour of a more secure QR code system. The tech giant will be implementing this change later this year, aiming to bolster account security and reduce reliance on vulnerable text message codes, a report has said.This move aligns with the broader industry trend of moving away from traditional passwords and SMS-based authentication, which are susceptible to phishing attacks and other security vulnerabilities, Ross Richendrfer, Google&#8217;s head of security and privacy public relations, told Forbes. Richendrfer alsi also saod that users will soon be prompted to scan a QR code to verify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}