Every GSM phone needs a SIM card, and you'd think such a ubiquitous standard would be immune to any hijack attempts. Evidently not, as Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs -- who found a hole in GSM ...

Spy agencies allegedly hacked into the computer systems of a foreign commercial company to steal secrets that would allow them to tap into over a quarter of the world's cell phones. Late last week, ...

A California judge ruled that AT&T was off the hook for any punitive damages after hackers yoinked $24 million from early bitcoin investor Michael Terpin. Reading time 3 minutes One early crypto ...

Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

A flaw with mobile phones' Sim card technology is putting millions of people at risk of being spied on and robbed, according to a leading security expert. Karsten Nohl has said he has found a way to ...

Robert Ross was sitting in his San Francisco home office in October 2018 when he noticed the bars on his phone had disappeared and he had no cell coverage. A few hours later, he had lost $1 million.

(WHTM) — It’s not just vulnerable Midstaters. A security-sensitive government agency confirms it has fallen victim to what’s called a “SIM-swapping” attack. That’s when someone takes over your cell ...