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Secure your account with SMS two-factor authentication (2FA)

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Mike_MYOB
Community Manager
6 months ago
Hi everyone,  We’re introducing an important security update to your MYOB login. Data security is our top priority. To add an additional layer of security and help protect your account, we’ll soo...
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PalletcoSA
Contributing Cover User
5 months ago

Even the ATO do not recommend SMS 2FA - yet somehow MYOB knows better?

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    Mike_MYOB
    Community Manager
    5 months ago

    Hi PalletcoSA​ , if you have a link to where the ATO states they do not recommend SMS I would appreciate if you can provide it?

    I know this has been mentioned by others in the forum and on this thread as well, so I have tried to look for confirmation of this and I cannot find it.

    What I can find, is that the ATO encourage people to use their own code generator app.
    But they also list email and SMS as options alongside an authenticator app as options.
     

     

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      PalletcoSA
      Contributing Cover User
      5 months ago

       

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        Mike_MYOB
        Community Manager
        5 months ago

        Thanks PalletcoSA​ , that appears to be a browser summary rather than direct messaging from the ATO
        I was able to pull up the same summary and clicked on the references it has pulled to generate that information and it seems to come from their scam alerts page

        This is in reference to SMS scams, rather than the use of SMS as a 2FA method 
        You can take a look at the page linked here and below. 

        https://www.ato.gov.au/online-services/scams-cyber-safety-and-identity-protection/scam-alerts