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Voice phishing, or vishing, [1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern Voice over IP ...
tinder .com. Tinder is an online dating and geosocial networking application launched in 2012. On Tinder, users " swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles, which include their photos, a short bio, and some of their interests.
STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks.Caller ID spoofing is used by robocallers to mask their identity or to make it appear the call is from a legitimate source, often a nearby phone number with the same area code and exchange, or from well-known agencies like the Internal Revenue Service or ...
Randonautica (a portmanteau of "random" + "nautica") is an app launched on February 22, 2020 founded by Auburn Salcedo and Joshua Lengfelder ( / lænɡfældɛr / ). It randomly generates coordinates that enable the user to explore their local area and report on their findings. According to its creators, the app is "an attractor of strange ...
March 5, 2024 at 5:04 PM. Facebook and Instagram hosted ads that featured a blurred fake nude image of an underage celebrity used to promote an app that billed itself as a way to make sexually ...
IMSI-catcher. An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher, is a telephone eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking location data of mobile phone users. [1] Essentially a "fake" mobile tower acting between the target mobile phone and the service provider's real towers, it is considered ...
Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard. It was incorporated in 2000 and received $45 million in funding in 2005. Investors were later bought-out by Algard in 2013. From 2008 to 2013, Whitepages released several mobile apps, a re-design in 2009, the ability for consumers to control their contact ...
YouMail Inc. YouMail is an Irvine, CA -based developer of a visual voicemail [1] and Robocall blocking service for mobile phones, [2] available in the US and the UK. [3] Their voicemail mobile app replaces the voicemail service offered by mobile phone service providers, and offers webmail -like voicemail access and voicemail-to-text ...