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Australia acts on mobile number fraud

October 22, 2019

Australia has announced telco regulations that prevent fraudsters from hijacking mobile numbers to access personal and financial information, and reduce phone scams, reports ZDNet. “Under the new industry-wide measures, telcos will be required to introduce two-factor authentication, such as inputting a code on a website or responding to a text message, before mobile numbers can be transferred from one provider to another. Pre-port verification measures are already being used by many Australian telcos, including the major players Telstra, Optus, and Vodafone.

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