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Incognia Introduces New Location Identity Fraud Detection Tools

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Palo Alto, CA — March 15, 2022 —Mobile authentication pioneer Incognia, today announced the launch of new location identity fraud detection modules to support mobile app security for customers across finserv, crypto, social networks, online gaming and more. Incognia’s solution modules include Location Spoofing Detection, Global Mobile Address Validation, and Trusted Device Intelligence – all of which can be used for preventing mobile app fraud during onboarding, logins and transactions.

With Finance app downloads totaling 5.9B in 2021, increasing 28% YOY, and Gaming apps seeing more than $16B in consumer spend in 2021[1], it is not only new users that are flocking to fintech and gaming apps but also fraudsters. Incognia’s new solution modules offer enhanced fraud prevention capabilities for mobile apps by leveraging location and device intelligence signals directly from the user’s device. Fraudsters are adopting new fraud techniques targeted at mobile including use of location spoofing to hide and obscure the true location of the user. A key benefit of Incognia fraud detection modules is that they add no friction to the user experience and work silently in the background, providing highly accurate risk assessments to prevent fraud.

Incognia module offerings include:

  • Location Spoofing Detection: Location spoofing detection is especially important for trust and safety in mobile apps for social, dating, transportation, food delivery, gambling and gaming. Incognia is highly effective in detecting GPS location spoofing during onboarding, new account creation, login and transactions & payments. The Incognia SDK collects anonymous location data from mobile devices through its proprietary location technology using GPS, Wifi, cellular and Bluetooth sensors data. Whenever a user tries to login or perform a sensitive transaction in the app from a new or existing device, Incognia provides a risk score and associated evidence based on the correlation of current and historical user location behavior and device intelligence data.
  • Global Mobile Address Validation: Mobile apps with global coverage need solutions for international address validation. Incognia Global Mobile Address…

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Vodafone-Idea Launches WorkForce Essentials Plans; Offering Location Tracking Service

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Vodafone-Idea is providing prepaid and postpaid services to its customers. Besides, the telecom operator is focussing on its enterprises and launched segments called the Workforce Essentials. Notably, the third-largest telecom operator has announced two packs.

Vodafone-Idea Launches WorkForce Essentials Plans

These packs are designed for employees of the companies. These packs are designed for those companies that want to keep on track its employees and data. Notably, the company has launched two plans, which are priced at Rs. 299 and Rs. 549 per month. These packs are known as Lite+GPS and the Business.

Vodafone-Idea Workforce Essentials Plans Details

The first plan in the segment is known as the Lite+GPS plan and is already available for 30 days free trials. It includes four pre-modules, like time, attendance, field worker GPS tracking, and maps.

The Business Plan does not come up with a free trial, which means users have to pay to get services. This pack ships six pre-fixed modules, such as field Worker GPS tracking, work order dispatching, time and attendance module, messaging, and more.

It is worth noting that GPS tracking is one of the big advantages that come from these plans, where companies can track the exact location of employees. Besides, companies can ask them to change the directions. This can make business time-saving and cost-efficient.

Vodafone-Idea Plans For Corporate Customers

Apart from these plans, Vodafone-Idea offers postpaid plans for corporate customers. The plans start from Rs. 299 and goes up to Rs. 499. The Rs. 299 offers 30GB of data, unlimited calling, and 3000 Messages per month. It includes access to the company’s app and mobile security.

The other plan of Rs. 349 is providing unlimited calling, 3,000 messages per month, 40GB of data, mobile security, location tracking, Profile Tunes, VIP access to the company’s app. Next, in the line is a plan of Rs. 399, where users will get 60GB of data, unlimited calling, 3,000 messages, and similar benefits for one month.

Lastly, there is a pack of Rs. 499, where users will get 100GB of data, unlimited calls, and 3,000 messages. This pack also ships Vi Movies & TV VIP, Profile Tunes,…

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Ken Westin Discussing Mobile Security with KGW – Smartphone Security

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Boffins propose Pretty Good Phone Privacy to end pretty invasive location data harvesting by telcos • The Register

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Computer science boffins have devised a way to prevent the location of mobile phone users from being snarfed and sold to marketers, though the technique won’t affect targeted nation-state surveillance.

“We solve something that had previously been thought impossible – achieving location privacy in mobile networks,” said Paul Schmitt, an associate research scholar at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University, told The Register.

In “Pretty Good Phone Privacy,” [PDF] a paper scheduled to be presented on Thursday at the Usenix Security Symposium, Schmitt and Barath Raghavan, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, describe a way to re-engineer the mobile network software stack so that it doesn’t betray the location of mobile network customers.

“It’s always been thought that since cell towers need to talk to phones then all users have to accept the status quo in which mobile operators track our every movement and sell the data to data brokers (as has been extensively reported),” said Schmitt. “We show how it’s possible to protect users’ mobile privacy while at the same time providing normal connectivity, and to do so without changing any of the hardware in mobile networks.”

In recent years, mobile carriers have been routinely selling and leaking location data, to the detriment of customer privacy. Efforts to alter the status quo have been hampered by an uneven regulatory landscape, the resistance of data brokers that profit from the status quo, and the assumption that cellular network architecture requires knowing where customers are located.

But thanks to evolving networking technology, which has shifted many core cellular functions from hardware to software, it’s now possible to redesign mobile networks to limit the availability of location data.

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