Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

Many Web sites and apps now offer two-factor authentication (2FA), which requires you to enter a short numeric code—the so-called second factor—in addition to ...

New Trends in Patient Engagement Report: Short-Code Text Messages Driving Patient Frustration, 65 Percent Admit to Ignoring Them PR Newswire SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 8, 2025 ...

Premium messaging providers are NOT public interest groups.... I'd like to know what in the public interest, other than premiuim messaging, is in the public interest of allowing short codes I think ...

A new study claims that the industry average for an SMS text message response from a common short code was approximately 9 seconds. The fastest common short code responded in less than 6 seconds and ...