A security researcher has found an exposed server containing hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Sept. 4). Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member of the GDI Foundation, found the database with more than 419 million records over...
The rise of the digital economy has resulted in growing concerns about identification, not the least of which is making sure that people who try to open financial accounts, or complete a variety of online or mobile transactions, are who they say they are. However,...
Cognito CEO Alain Meier and his colleagues at the identify verification service have a peculiar way of freaking out payment and commerce operators. The trick? Simply showing what the lowly, mundane, terribly average phone number can do in terms of securing transactions, onboarding and other...
June 04, 2019
The rise of the digital economy has resulted in growing concerns about identification, not the least of which is making sure that people who try to open financial accounts, or complete a variety of online or mobile transactions, are who they say they are. However, if data is vital to the digital economy, so is […]
April 03, 2019
Cognito CEO Alain Meier and his colleagues at the identify verification service have a peculiar way of freaking out payment and commerce operators. The trick? Simply showing what the lowly,...
December 24, 2019
In its ongoing attempts to fix its privacy standards, Facebook will no longer use phone numbers to determine who one sees on their “people you may know” list, according to Reuters. The move is an attempt by the company — which has been dogged by privacy scandals for years now — to correct misuses of […]
September 04, 2019
A security researcher has found an exposed server containing hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Sept. 4). Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and...
