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Monitoring AWS End User Messaging SMS Registrations with Lambda

Patrick Viker — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:48:11 +0000

Managing AWS End User Messaging SMS registrations can be challenging, especially when dealing with multiple registrations in various states and countries. This post introduces an automated monitoring solution that helps you stay on top of your registration statuses. By leveraging AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and Simple Email Service (SES), you’ll create a system that provides regular […]

Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:05:27 +0000

I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem.

A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They were standard messages about delayed packages or somesuch, with the goal of getting me to click on a link and entering some personal information into a website. But because they came from unknown phone numbers, the links did not work. So—this is the new bit—the messages said something like: “Please reply Y, then exit the text message, reopen the text message activation link, or copy the link to Safari browser to open it.”...

Build a Two-Way Email-to-SMS Service with Amazon SES and Amazon End User Messaging

Cheng Wang — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:18:44 +0000

Introduction Businesses and organizations today struggle to effectively communicate with their customers, employees, or other stakeholders across the diverse range of digital channels they now use. One common problem arises when the requirement to exchange information quickly and reliably extends beyond traditional email. This issue challenges organizations where recipients lack immediate access to email. This […]

Automate AWS End User Messaging US toll-free Number Registrations

Bruno Giorgini — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:54:20 +0000

Introduction: AWS End User Messaging enables customers to send SMS messages to recipients located across the globe. If you are planning on rolling out SMS across multiple countries, we recommend reviewing this blog. When you send SMS or MMS messages using AWS End User Messaging SMS, you must use a specific origination identity that supports […]

Lower Your Risk of SMS Fraud with Country Level Blocking and Amazon Pinpoint

Brett Ezell — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:36:25 +0000

As a developer, marketing professional, or someone in the communications space, you’re likely familiar with the importance of SMS messaging in engaging customers and driving valuable interactions. However, you may have also encountered the growing challenge of artificially inflated traffic (AIT), also known as SMS pumping. A new report co-authored by Enea revealed that AIT […]

Another Attack Vector For SMS Interception

Bozho — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:28:18 +0000

SMS codes for 2FAs have been discussed for a long time, and everyone knowledgeable in security knows they are not secure. What’s more – you should remove your phone numberContinue reading

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Simplify your SMS setup with the new Amazon Pinpoint SMS console

hamzarau — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:18:29 +0000

Amazon Pinpoint is a multichannel communication service that helps application developers engage their customers through communication channels such as SMS or text messaging, email, mobile push, voice, and in-app messaging. Amazon Pinpoint SMS provides the global scale, resiliency, and flexibility required to deliver SMS and voice messaging in web, mobile, or business applications. SMS messaging […]

How to Manage Global Sending of SMS with Amazon Pinpoint

Tyler Holmes — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:01:44 +0000

Amazon Pinpoint has a global SMS reach, of 240 countries and regions around the world, enabling companies of all sizes to send SMS globally. Unlike the process of sending a personal message from your phone to someone in another country, sending Application to Person (A2P) messages, also known as bulk SMS, involves many more regulations […]

UPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:55:41 +0000

I get UPS phishing spam on my phone all the time. I never click on it, because it’s so obviously spam. Turns out that hackers have been harvesting actual UPS delivery data from a Canadian tracking tool for its phishing SMSs.

Build AI and ML into Email & SMS for customer engagement

Vinay Ujjini — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:06:54 +0000

Build AI and ML into Email & SMS for customer engagement Customers engage with businesses through various channels like email, SMS, Push, and in-app. With the availability and ease of usage of mobile phones, businesses can use 2-way Short Service Messages (SMS) to engage with their customers. Text messaging does not need applications and provides […]

Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System

Bruce Schneier — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:53:50 +0000

Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system:

Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism. But users have been self-reporting issues on Twitter since the weekend, and WIRED confirmed that on at least some accounts, authentication texts are hours delayed or not coming at all. The meltdown comes less than two weeks after Twitter laid off about half of its workers...

Retry delivering failed SMS using Amazon Pinpoint

satyaso — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:53:12 +0000

Organizations in many sectors and verticals have user bases to whom they send transactional SMS messages such as OTPs (one-time passwords), Notices, or transaction/purchase confirmations, among other things. Amazon Pinpoint enables customers to send transactional SMS messages to a global audience through a single API endpoint, and the messages are routed to recipients by the […]

SMS Phishing Attacks are on the Rise

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:18:40 +0000

SMS phishing attacks — annoyingly called “smishing” — are becoming more common. I know that I have been receiving a lot of phishing SMS messages over the past few months. I am not getting the “Fedex package delivered&#8221...

Incident notification mechanism using Amazon Pinpoint two-way SMS

Pavlos Ioannou Katidis — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:43:10 +0000

Unexpected situations that require immediate attention can occur in any industry. Part of resolving these incidents is the notifications’ delivery. For example, utility companies that have installed gas sensors need to notify immediately the available engineer if a leak occurs. The goal of an incident management process is to restore a normal service operation as […]

Queueing Amazon Pinpoint API calls to distribute SMS spikes

satyaso — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:10:44 +0000

Organizations across industries and verticals have user bases spread around the globe. Amazon Pinpoint enables them to send SMS messages to a global audience through a single API endpoint, and the messages are routed to destination countries by the service. Amazon Pinpoint utilizes downstream SMS providers to deliver the messages and these SMS providers offer […]

Introducing the Amazon Pinpoint SMS sandbox

Brent Meyer — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:21:29 +0000

Amazon Pinpoint now includes a new feature called the SMS sandbox. If you’ve sent email through Amazon Pinpoint (or if you’ve used Amazon SES), the sandbox might be a familiar concept. This new feature helps protect your Amazon Pinpoint account against unauthorized use, accidental sends, and unexpected charges. In this post, I’ll describe the SMS […]

Create a serverless feedback collector application using Amazon Pinpoint’s two-way SMS functionality

Murat Balkan — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:42:21 +0000

Introduction Two-way SMS communication is used by many companies to create interactive engagements with their customers. Traditional SMS notifications are one-way. While this is valid for many different use cases like one-time passwords (OTP) notifications and security notifications or reminders, some other use-cases may benefit from collecting information from the same channel. Two-way SMS allows […]

Send SMS messages at scale using 10DLC and Amazon Pinpoint

Brent Meyer — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 23:51:22 +0000

This week, we’re adding support for 10DLC phone numbers to Amazon Pinpoint. You can use 10DLC phone numbers to send SMS text messages at scale quickly and affordably. What is 10DLC? The abbreviation 10DLC stands for Ten-Digit Long Code. 10DLC phone numbers are intended specifically for sending Application-to-Person (A2P) messages—that is, messages that are sent […]

Updating opt-in status for Amazon Pinpoint channels

Varinder Dhanota — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:54:45 +0000

In many real-world scenarios, customers are using home-grown or 3rd party systems to manage their campaign related information. This includes user preferences, segmentation, targeting, interactions, and more. To create customer-centric engagement experiences with such existing systems, migrating or integrating into Amazon Pinpoint is needed. Luckily, many AWS services and mechanisms can help to streamline this […]