I’ll start with a big thank you to C|Net author Dennis O’Reilly for putting together this list. The advice is clear, to protect our accounts and our identity we must turn on two-factor authentication for every account that requires a password. Take O’Reilly’s advice and turn on 2FA for all the accounts he references and
The first ever SMS, wishing a friend, “Merry Christmas” was sent on December 3, 1992. That was 20 years ago, which is 100 in technology years. I think my first SMS was, “Did you get this?” A friend and I discovered SMS one afternoon and sent several SMSes while sitting next to each other until
Telesign Phone Verification is fast becoming a critical piece of fraud prevention strategies and increasingly helping organizations automate the manual review process. Interestingly, based on CyberSource’s recent 2012 Online Fraud Report, it was estimated that $3.4 Billion were lost to online fraud in 2011 alone and merchants were rejecting an average of 2.8% of their
One of the things Telesign is working on in Q1 is making our APIs available via a REST interface. Today all of our customers access our APIs via SOAP and we’ve definitely heard that folks want us to provide our APIs in an alternative form since almost all Web Services today use REST. When developing
It’s pretty obvious that passwords have become ingrained in our online experience at virtually every level. For me, I have the same password for nearly everything. When I turn on my computer, when I check my email, even when I buy a new dress off of my favorite clothing site, I use this password. In