While many foreign phone carriers are sharing real-time SIM swap data with banks to stop financial fraud, US carriers are dragging their feet
AROUND A YEAR ago, André Tenreiro was called into a meeting between the chief technology officer of the phone carrier he worked for … Tweets: @dinodaizovi and @jessysaurusrex Tweets: Dino A. Dai Zovi / @dinodaizovi : Brilliant: telcos provide an endpoint allowing queries of whether a number has been swapped within the last few days. Victims notice within minutes, so this prevents SIM swap fraudsters from winning the race. http://twitter.com/... Jessy Irwin / @jessysaurusrex : Given the prevalence of SIM theft and the inability of SMS 2FA to withstand targeted attack, y'all should be mad as hell about US carriers being meh about adopting solutions to this problem: The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn't Using http://www.wired.com/...