Tag: A2P SMS
Karsten Nohl on Cloud Hacking, Central Bank Ends SMS 2FA and Macron’s Filter: Commsrisk Show Episode 10
The world-famous security researcher explained how he hacked a telco's cloud servers and the harm that could be done by bad actors.
Malaysian Banks Stop Using SMS for Two Factor Authentication
The central bank of Malaysia cares more about stopping fraud than appeasing laggards who are only delaying necessary change.
SMS Pumping, Attempted Coups, and Watching the Fraud Watchmen: Episode 7 of The Commsrisk Show
Tim Biddle of Sinch explained why fraudsters use bots to generate artificial SMS traffic and what can be done to stop them.
IoT Safety, Flash Calls, SMS Blasters and Bilateral Spam Accords: Episode 3 of The Commsrisk Show
David Rogers, Chair of the GSMA Fraud and Security Group, was the special guest.
Facebook Experiments with Flash Calls
They are following the lead of Twitter by wanting to cut expenditure on SMS messages for user authentication.
Watch Episode 1 of The Communications Risk Show
Corruption, hacking, lawsuits against regulators, two-factor authentication by SMS, the UN, GVG, 5G and Elon Musk were among the topics for the first episode of our new conversation program.
Elon Musk Has Radical Solution for A2P SMS Fraud: Twitter Turns Off 2-Factor Authentication by SMS
Comms providers will fear other businesses may follow Twitter's lead by telling users to adopt different modes of authentication.
Singapore to Flag All A2P SMS from Unregistered Senders as ‘Likely Scam’
The warnings will be presented for 6 months from January 31, then texts from unregistered senders will be automatically blocked.
Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
Twitter accounts were created solely to generate revenue for telcos from two-factor authentication SMS messages.
Phone App Buys P2P SMS Allowances from Consumers to Reuse for A2P SMS
Simcash tells users their phone will relay one time passwords and similar A2P messages but consumer reviews suggest that is false.
London Thief Exploits Yet Another Flaw with SMS OTPs
A serial criminal is taking phones from gym lockers and using them to remove thousands of pounds from bank accounts.
Is Flash Calling a Fraud?
Businesses like Whatsapp are intentionally using the A-number of calls that are not connected as a free mechanism for passing data to apps on a user's phone.
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