| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.11.2024 | Securing the AI frontier: Protecting enterprise systems against AI-driven threats | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
By 2025, weaponized AI attacks targeting identities—unseen and often the most costly to recover from—will pose th... |
| 08.11.2024 | Identity management in 2025: 4 ways security teams can address gaps and risks | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
While 99% of businesses plan to invest more in security, only 52% have fully implemented multi-factor authenticat... |
| 03.10.2024 | GPT-4o: OpenAI’s shield against $40B deepfake threat to enterprises | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Deepfake incidents are surging in 2024, predicted to increase by 60% or more this year, pushing global cases to 1... |
| 21.09.2024 | Navigating the Digital Landscape: Leadership Changes and Fraud Epidemics | In the ever-evolving world of telecommunications and digital security, two recent developments stand out. The appointment of Surash Patel as Managing Director of BICS signals a new era for the company. Meanwhile, alarming statistics from Te... |
| 20.09.2024 | Nearly 1 in 3 People Worldwide Report Being Victims of Digital Fraud | Telesign, the leading provider of customer identity and engagement solutions, released the second set of data from its 2024 Trust Index Report. Among the new findings, nearly one in three people globally report being a victim of digital fra... |
| 17.09.2024 | Surash Patel appointed as Managing Director of BICS | BICS, the global network enabler and a Proximus company, announced today the appointment of Surash Patel as Managing Director of BICS, effective immediately. Patel succeeds Guillaume Boutin, who has led BICS ad interim since February and wi... |
| 19.08.2024 | Attackers Use Xeon Sender Tool to Launch SMS Phishing, Spam Campaigns | By Joseph Henry
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A sophisticated tool named Xeon Sender is being exploited by cybercriminals to launch ... |
| 23.07.2024 | New study reveals what companies need to do to earn trust in the age of AI | (BPT) - Although artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are groundbreaking technologies providing benefits to companies and consumers, they've also ushered in a new era of sophisticated tools that facilitate fraud. As busine... |
| 18.07.2024 | The mindset, technology and tools that are stopping ecommerce in its tracks | Presented by TeleSign
Ecommerce fraud is rising — here’s how to stop it. Catch up with this on-demand VB Spotlight for insight into the most common types of fraud. Participants will come away with a plan for a strategic and technological fr... |
| 25.06.2024 | How adversarial AI is creating shallow trust in deepfake world | Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More
With 87% of America... |
| 25.06.2024 | 2024 Telesign Trust Index Reveals the Importance of Trust in the AI Era | Survey reveals consumer uncertainty over AI’s impact on digital privacy, fear for how AI-generated content could impact upcoming elections
Telesign, the leading provider of customer identity and engagement solutions, released the first set ... |
| 07.06.2024 | How AI-driven identity attacks are defining the new threatscape | VB Transform 2024 returns this July! Over 400 enterprise leaders will gather in San Francisco from July 9-11 to dive into the advancement of GenAI strategies and engaging in thought-provoking discussions within the community. Find out how y... |
| 07.05.2024 | How VISA is using generative AI to battle account fraud attacks | Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here.
Attackers rely on automation to brute force card t... |
| 15.04.2024 | Telesign’s Verify API goes all in with AI and ML to secure omnichannel growth | Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here.
Omnichannel selling is now table stakes for any or... |
| 27.12.2023 | 16 Cybersecurity leaders predict how gen AI will improve cybersecurity in 2024 | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
With greater AI power comes greater complexity, especially for CISOs adopting generative AI. Gen AI is the... |
| 27.10.2023 | Business Reporter: Demonstrating to customers that they are in a safe online space | How meeting the requirements of a certified badge can help build trust LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, October 27, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In an article published on Business Reporter, Kristi Melani, Chief Marketing Officer and GTM Strategy at T... |
| 27.09.2023 | E-commerce fraud to cost $48 billion globally this year as attacks skyrocket, report says | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More
Cyberattacks cost more than ransoms. They also damage brands and customer trust if company lead... |
| 12.09.2023 | Five ways CISOs are using AI to protect their employees’ digital devices and identities | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More
Using generative AI to automate scripts seeking unprotected endpoints, ports and infrastructure... |
| 21.07.2023 | The growing impact of generative AI on cybersecurity and identity theft | Presented by Telesign
Personal data is under siege in the digital world. Beating the threat is more than one-and-done — it takes building a comprehensive, multi-layered fraud stack. In this VB Spotlight, security industry experts reveal wha... |
| 13.07.2023 | The Big Brother in your pocket: How a US company secretly tracks and rates half of the world's mobile users | Imagine a hidden system that tracks and scores you based on every phone call you make or take. It might sound like something straight out of a Black Mirror episode and remind you of China's controversial social credit system. But surprising... |
| 30.05.2023 | Telesign Trust Index a call to action for any enterprise that’s discounting cybersecurity | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
The 2023 Telesign Trust Index report shows how the alarming rise of digital fraud is jeopardizing ... |
| 21.05.2023 | 2023 Telesign Trust Index Finds Companies Responsible For Protecting Privacy, Not Consumers | |
| 27.04.2023 | Business Reporter: Tackling the rise in account takeover fraud | How can mobile number based verification detect fraud while offering legitimate users a seamless customer experience? LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, April 27, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- In an article published on Business Reporter, Seth Gilpin, Dir... |
| 08.03.2023 | Access management must get stronger in a zero-trust world | Access management (AM) done right is the fuel for successful digital transformation. Identities and AM are core to earning customers’ trust — a must for digital-first initiatives to get a strong start and deliver revenue.
AM and identities ... |
| 01.03.2023 | Creating secure customer experiences with zero trust | Solving the problem of protecting personalized customer experiences at scale will grow a digital business faster than competitors, fueling confidence and trust.
Getting the balance of security, safety, confidence and trust right is table st... |
| 31.01.2023 | Qube Events Welcomes FinTech & RegTech Industry Leaders to the 13th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum | Qube Events brings together FinTech and RegTech Thought Leaders Once Again at the 13th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum. The event will take place on May 8-9th at Marriott Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland Over 400 industry leaders represent... |
| 06.10.2022 | Telesign Named “Secure Communications Solution Provider of the Year” in 2022 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards Program | Using advanced machine learning that evaluates global traffic patterns, phone data attributes, and the world’s largest fraud database, Telesign Intelligence delivers comprehensive phone number intelligence to fight IRSF losses and protect a... |
| 20.09.2022 | Phishing Dominates the Headlines, But the Real Story in Cybersecurity is Passwords and How to Better Train and Educate People | Password creation and management best practices are a core focus of Drip7, a national cybersecurity training platform. People should avoid popular strings of words “Each person today manages hundreds of passwords and the LastPass cyber brea... |
| 29.07.2022 | How Online Businesses Can Balance Security With Low-Friction Transactions | Joseph Burton is the CEO of TeleSign. |
| 07.01.2022 | North Atlantic Acquisition Corporation Announces Confidential Submission of Form S-4 Registration Statement Related to Proposed Business Combination | NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North Atlantic Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: NAAC) ("NAAC"), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a business combination with a company with global ambition, today ann... |
| 17.12.2021 | LA-Based Fraud Prevention Service TeleSign Will Go Public Via SPAC | TeleSign, a digital identity verification and fraud prevention company used by companies like TikTok and GoFundMe, plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm at an enterprise value of $1.3 billion.
The deal with North Atlan... |
| 17.12.2021 | TikTok's Fraud Prevention Partner Is Going Public in a $1.3 Billion Deal | TeleSign, a digital identity verification and fraud prevention company used by companies like TikTok and GoFundMe, plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm at an enterprise value of $1.3 billion.
The deal with North Atlan... |
| 17.12.2021 | TeleSign and North Atlantic Acquisition Corporation Announce Business Combination and Intent To Go Public | NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
TeleSign is a pioneer and leader in connecting, protecting and defending the world's leading brands and their customers as they engage in the digital economy. TeleSign does this via its unique softwar... |
| 16.12.2021 | TeleSign Becomes a WhatsApp Business Solution Provider | Jessel Thomas, Tech Times 16 December 2021, 10:12 am
TeleSign, the leading provider of customer identity and engagement solutions, announced it had become a WhatsApp Business Solution Provider, enabling TeleSign to help businesses securely ... |
| 18.09.2020 | Scaling with Diversity in Customer Success | Last month, Insight Partners published our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. You can read more here about our initiatives to build a software ecosystem that reflects the society we want to live in and provides equality and opp... |
| 18.06.2020 | How I Accidentally Hijacked Someone's WhatsApp | "Thank you very much friend, [I send] a big hug," one of the WhatsApp messages from a number I didn't recognize read in Spanish. "Good. I like hearing good news," another from a different person read.
Other messages incl... |
| 19.05.2019 | How I Made It: Ryan Disraeli’s TeleSign helps prevent online fraud, one PIN at a time | Ryan Disraeli, 31, is one of the three co-founders of TeleSign, a Marina del Rey company that provides user identification software for things such as two-factor authentication services — requiring an additional personal ID number sent to o... |
| 15.11.2018 | A leaky database of SMS text messages exposed password resets and two-factor codes | A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more.
The exposed server belongs to Voxox (formerly Telcentris), a Sa... |
| 26.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 26 | ET CETERA
Good morning!
This the third-largest ever “ed tech” deal, aside from German publishing giant Bertelsmann’s $230 million stake in HotChalk and a $200 million fundraising by TutorGroup, an Alibaba-backed English tutoring startup.
Th... |
| 25.04.2017 | BICS to Acquire Summit-backed TeleSign for $230M | BICS, a global provider of international wholesale connectivity and interoperability services, today announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held TeleSign Corporation, a United States company active in the provi... |
| 29.06.2016 | 72 percent of companies plan to ditch passwords by 2025 | Security professionals increasingly believe that usernames and passwords provide insufficient security, and 72 percent think they will be phased out within nine years.
This is among the findings from mobile identity company TeleSign which a... |
| 01.05.2016 | Strengthening authentication through big data | Ben Dickson Contributor
Ben Dickson is a software engineer and the founder of TechTalks.
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| 05.04.2016 | Behavior ID strengthens mobile and web security | Whether it's down to stolen credentials, weak passwords or bot-based attacks, the threat of an account takeover is one of the major worries for most users.
Mobile identity company TeleSign is launching Behavior ID, a new offering that enabl... |
| 18.11.2015 | Fake users plague business websites | We've already seen Amazon taking action to prevent fake reviews, but a new survey reveals that 43 percent of websites admit to allowing fake users in order to avoid friction during account registration.
The study conducted by identity solut... |
| 07.09.2015 | The Business Of Fraud | Steve Jillings Contributor
Steve Jillings is the CEO of TeleSign.
When you visualize a hacker, what do you see?
Do you envision a young computer enthusiast coding in their basement, pounding Red Bull? A futuristic robot plugged into hundred... |
| 02.09.2015 | TeleSign simplifies end user verification | Being able to accurately and safely verify identity is increasingly important as online fraud remains a major threat.
Mobile identity solutions specialist TeleSign is announcing the launch of TeleSign Smart Verify, a new unified API that si... |
| 27.08.2015 | TeleSign and Telefόnica team up to cut mobile fraud | Mobile identity specialist TeleSign has announced an agreement with Spanish telecoms giant Telefόnica -- the company behind O2 in the UK and Germany -- to deliver a suite of services to address account security and fraud prevention for ente... |
| 29.07.2015 | TeleSign SDK streamlines verification on mobiles | Many of the latest cyber attacks focus on mobile platforms as they're often seen as inherently less secure, particularly when handling account logins and important transactions.
Mobile identity solutions company TeleSign is today launching ... |
| 04.06.2015 | 70 percent of consumers lack confidence in passwords | When we regularly hear stories of personal details being stolen through data breaches and hacks, it's not surprising that people are losing faith in the ability of passwords to protect them.
A new report from mobile ID provider TeleSign rev... |
| 03.03.2015 | Mobile phones have quietly become a global identity device we don’t really need | Mobile phones have become central to our lives. In the US, 90% of adults have one. Although we think of mobile phones for their primary role in communication, they have quietly become a global identification device. Governments, and their s... |
| 04.07.2014 | TeleSign Receives Strategic Investment from Telstra Ventures | TeleSign, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of mobile phone-based verification tools for online accounts, has received a strategic investment from Australia’s Telstra Ventures.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
The company wil... |
| 03.07.2014 | After Closing $49 Million In Funding, TeleSign Pushing Authentication Services | In the age of email spoofing, identity theft, and the myriad sorts of virtual chicanery and flim-flammery, having a service that can verify a person’s identity is vital. As demand for identity verification and and authentication grows, Tele... |
| 03.07.2014 | TeleSign Secures $9 Million in Additional Series B Funds | - |
| 03.07.2014 |
Telesign Raises Funding from Telstra
| Los Angeles-based mobile security and authentication provider Telesign has raised some funding from Australian telecom provider Telstra, Telstra said last night, as part of an expansion by TeleSign into the Asia Pacific Region. Financial te... |
| 09.06.2014 | How to stop your smartphone hemorrhaging data | While the technology versus privacy battle rages on, many consumers and businesses are still unaware of how much data can be gleaned from a mobile phone.
Despite the NSA and Edward Snowden being in the news every other day, most people don'... |
| 30.04.2014 | TeleSign Raises $40M in Series B Funding | TeleSign, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of authentication services of mobile phones, raised $40m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Adams Street Partners with participation from March Capital Partners and existing investor Summit ... |
| 29.04.2014 | Mobile Security Firm TeleSign Gets $40 million in Series B | - |
| 29.04.2014 |
TeleSign Gets $40M
| Los Angeles-based TeleSign, the developer of security and identification technology headed by serial entrepreneur Steve Jillings, has raised $40M in a Series B funding round, the company announced this morning. According to the company, the... |
| 17.05.2013 | A list of top LA accelerators and incubators
Retrieve Voicemail Online or By Phone | Amplify, Launchpad, MuckerLab, Idealab and Science among those churning out new startups
(Updated to reflect more up to date information for Start Engine and Curious Minds)
s I have noted before, the tech scene in Los Angeles is on the rise... |
| 21.11.2012 | 3, 2, 1, liftoff! Startup Minds sends promising ideas into flight | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The intent of accelerator programs is to help sta... |
| 09.09.2012 | PhoneID Lets You Login To Websites Without A Username Or Password — From Your Phone | On the web, we have a host of user names and passwords we have to remember, whether for news sites or apps or Netflix. So Michael Thomas and Vahur Roosimaa of Los Angeles-based startup Scopely have hacked together PhoneID, which lets you lo... |
| 13.07.2012 |
TeleSign Raises $29.0M
| Los Angeles-based TeleSign, the provider of telephone-based, Internet fraud prevention and authentication services headed by tech vet Steve Jillings, has raised $29.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thurs... |
