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SMS spoofing. SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which ...
A data scraper is selling information on what it claims to be 600 million Discord users. A report from 404 Media details Spy Pet, an online service that gathers, stores and sells troves of ...
Telegram has introduced new feature that grants users a free premium sub in exchange for utilizing their phone number as a relay for OTPs. Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy ...
Discord: Email or Phone number Yes No No No No Element: No Yes Yes [106] No Yes Yes Fractal: No No Yes Yes Gadu-Gadu: Email and Phone number No No Gajim: Email Yes No Yes Google Chat: Email; Google account Yes Google Messages (RCS) Phone number Similar to SMS requirements, RCS messaging requires a valid SIM card to be inserted in the device.
YMSG ( Yahoo! Messenger ) ^ a b One-to-many / many-to-many communications primarily comprise presence information, publish/subscribe and groupchat distribution. Some technologies have the ability to distribute data by multicast, avoiding bottlenecks on the sending side caused by the number of recipients.
Beeper Mini was made possible because the team behind the app has managed to reverse-engineer the iMessage protocol, they say. “That’s the big breakthrough,” explains Beeper co-founder and ...
End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for almost 2,000 users as part of the breach at communications giant Twilio last week
As of earlier this year, Google’s implementation of RCS also offers by default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for both one-on-one and group chats. Unlike SMS texts, RCS messages are routed over a ...