The Month in Hacks: April 2017

One of the world’s most popular routers is vulnerable to attack, a multinational hotel chain is victimized by a trojan, and Russian banks lose nearly a million bucks. It’s all this and more in The Month in Hacks.

Published in Threats & Trends

Taking on the $8B Communications Platform as a Service Market

Today we open our premium global network, proprietary data intelligence and innovative communications and security APIs, enjoyed by 20 of the 25 largest brands in the world, to a wider developer audience for the first time via a new self-service portal at www.telesign.com/go.

Published in Announcements by Aled Miles

Got Compliance? Navigating the Complexities of Sending SMS Globally

With expert knowledge of the SMS industry requirements, the TeleSign team supports and guides customers through the complexities of global SMS compliance.

Published in Industry Insight by Shivani Womack

How to Educate Users on Why You Need Their Phone Number

For some users, the request to provide their phone number can be an immediate turn-off, but you and your team know how essential it is for account security and fraud prevention. Luckily, the solution is pretty simple: educate your users on the value of two-factor authentication.

Published in Security Tips

CAPTCHA Codes: Are They the Best Fraud Prevention Solution for Your Business?

CAPTCHAs can be effective, but in terms of security and user experience, they are not the best option. Asking people to spend time solving a CAPTCHA word or image challenge is unnecessary, and typically frustrating to users. Beyond that, it doesn’t do very much to increase security.

Published in Security Tips

The Month in Hacks: March 2017

Hack remains unconfirmed as iCloud accounts held for ransom, third-party messaging apps suffer from several vulnerabilities and gift card balances are drained by a bot. It’s all this and more in The Month in Hacks.

Published in Threats & Trends

How-to: Using TeleSign to Reduce Fake Accounts

This tutorial provides a best-practice approach to reducing fake accounts that is recommended by TeleSign’s experienced team of security professionals.

Published in Product Highlights

VIDEO: How TeleSign Uses Machine Learning to Fight Fraud

At TeleSign, our Data Science team is using machine learning to power our Score API, which can now predict and prevent end-user account fraud with increased accuracy, in real time. See how!

Published in Product Highlights

10 Best Practice UI Tips for Phone Verifying End-Users

To help ensure the best overall user experience—one that promotes general security awareness and can ultimately increase end-user adoption and conversion—we’ve compiled a list of the top 10 best practices to incorporate into your user interface (UI) when implementing phone verification at new account registration.

Published in Industry Insight

TeleSign Score’s Data-Driven Intelligence Helps Ridesharing App Streamline Growth of Real Users

As a thriving business in an explosive growth industry, Via understands how important it is to prevent fraud and protect its user base without negatively impacting good users.

Published in Product Highlights