Historically used to recover the password from your mailbox, this official Google technique is soon obsolete.
You have certainly already known this situation: you have just received or wait for an urgent email, but when you connect to your mailbox … Horror! Impossible to find your identifiers. After multiple attempts, you then decide to abandon and reset your password. You then receive an SMS on your phone number completed beforehand with a code to enter to get a new password. Simple, efficient and secure … Finally, more for a long time.
Google has just announced the end of SMS authentication when you try to recover a password or change it on your mailbox. A technique used by (very) many sites to ensure that you are the person who requires a change of word pass. Google, however, wishes to get rid of it, especially for security reasons and encourages you to no longer use it. We detail how to proceed and why you must now be wary of future Google SMS that you will receive.
Receiving a confirmation code by SMS can be secure. Google thinks, however, that in our era, it is easy for computer hackers to succeed in stealing your phone or number. They just have to ask for a new password to be able to reset your email identifiers and thus obtain both your phone number and all of your emails.
This is why Google announced soon to end confirmation SMS in the event of password reset from your Gmail account. The company also specifies that this decision was made following the abuse of certain users, who pretended to be Google to send SMS filled with viruses and malware. The firm therefore warns: in a few months, SMS to reset your Gmail password will be scams.
Google will obviously not leave its users without alternative solution. Once the SMS is deleted, the Gmail site will now send you a QR code to scan with your phone. A much more secure way to ensure that you are well behind the password change, since a computer hacker will have more difficulty accessing your “camera” application and pointing your smartphone towards the QR code. This new method will therefore be much faster to perform and more secure for users.