| CPC H04L 63/1483 (2013.01) [H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 63/205 (2013.01)] | 14 Claims |
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1. A method comprising:
(a) detecting that a user is requested to input a genuine phone number of the user into a phone number field of an account profile page or an account settings page of a computerized service;
(b) inserting, into said phone number field of said account profile page or said account settings page, a replacement phone number that replaces the genuine phone number of said user at said computerized service;
(c) automatically monitoring and handling, continuously at a remote server, incoming SMS text messages that arrive to said replacement phone number of said user and that request the user to perform an elevated-security operation or to reset user credentials for accessing said computerized service;
wherein the monitoring and handling of step (c) comprise:
(c1) at said remote server, performing analysis of an incoming SMS text message that arrives to said replacement phone number;
(c2) if the analysis indicates that said incoming SMS text message is not requesting from said user to perform an elevated-security operation or to reset user credentials, then: forwarding said incoming SMS text message from the replacement phone number to the genuine phone number of the user;
else, preventing delivery of said incoming SMS text message to the genuine phone number of the user, and instead performing: delivering to the user an indication that an incoming SMS text message, which is requesting from the user to perform an elevated-security operation or to reset user credentials, was received at said replacement phone number; and enabling the user to view said incoming SMS text message via a secure channel and not via regular access to SMS text messages on said genuine phone number.
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