“Having a phone number linked to any of your online accounts makes you vulnerable to basically 13- to 16-year-old kids taking over your accounts just by taking over your phone within five minutes of calling your provider. It happens all the time.” Eric Taylor – Information Security Advisor at Path Network
Source: Vice
About Eric Taylor:
Aka Cosmo The God, Eric is a cybersecurity researcher specializing in Information Security, Penetration Testing, Computer Forensics, Social-Engineering, and Cyber Threat Intelligence. He was initiated into Google’s Security Hall of Fame in 2012 at the age of 15.
Eric served as Chief Technology Officer of Cinder Cyber Security, as well as Chief Information Security Officer at VIRAL. He possesses sophisticated levels of expertise in the realm of public relations having appeared in Wired, Good Morning America, TechCrunch, CNBC, CNN, Vice, BuzzFeed, PBS, and Washington Post among other media outlets.