A prominent blogger’s social networking account was hacked earlier this year. According to the article, the account was hacked, and the blogger’s username, password, and phone number listed on the website were used to set up another fake account to spam her friends with fake solicitations for branded goods. To top it off, the hackers
In light of Mat Honan’s recent hacking nightmare, it has become apparent that we all need to be more proactive about our personal account security. Here are 5 Password Best Practices: 1. Use strong passwords – the more complex your password is, the harder it is for fraudsters to guess it or hack it. 2.
In the movies, iris scanning protects high-security vaults and super-secret labs while personalizing billboard ads. In the real world, it helps New York City police track prisoners, screens employees of Bank of America Corp. and travelers at London’s Heathrow Airport. Outside of transplanting dead eye balls, as Tom Cruise did in Minority Report, surely you
announced that engage:BDR has integrated Telesign Verify on the company’s newest advertising platform, First Impression
Telesign announced an upgrade of its PhoneID solution for the United Kingdom and Germany
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
Telesign announced the U.S. Patent Office’s award of Patent No. 8,117,106 for Telesign’s TeleBureau, a clearinghouse for submission of fraud activity from online businesses and merchants
Telesign announced the addition of Max Powers, as Vice President, Client Services
The combination of MaxMind’s geolocation and minFraud fraud-risk scoring services and Telesign Telephone Verification and PhoneID delivers a best-in-breed alliance for fighting against a wide variety of fraud. Clients have already leveraged this joint solution through a single API that can call both services and in doing so…
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
Info Security Products Guide has named Telesign’s Telephone Verification, as a Best Fraud Prevention finalist for the 2012 Global Excellence Awards.