Michael Engle is CSO at 1Kosmos, and was previously head of information security at Lehman Brothers and co-founder of Bastille Networks. The Covid-19 lockdown accelerated the use of mobile and digital ...
We live in a fast-paced digital world, and smartphones have become a staple of our everyday lives. We rely on the device for everything from communication to banking to controlling all of our ...
Smartphones have been a boon to productivity and convenience. Many consumers have shifted their banking and investment transactions to the time-saving apps on their phones. But along with convenience, ...
NEW YORK – SIM-swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into an email or social media account. In this case, the thieves take over your phone number. Any calls or texts go ...
This week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Stephen Defiore, a Florida resident, accepted "multiple bribes" of up to $500 per day to perform the switches required to reroute phone numbers ...
The FBI told Scripps News San Diego that about 800 cases of SIM-swapping scams have been reported nationwide this year. A man in Carlsbad, California said a hacker was able to drain $38,000 from his ...
A subscriber identity module (SIM) was traditionally a small, removable card in your mobile phone that identified your phone number and authenticated your identity to a mobile network. When you got a ...
Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. The independent communications ...
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Two men were sentenced for operating a nationwide hack scheme and stealing $330,000 in crypto. Eric Meiggs, 24, and Declan Harrington, 22, used an illegal practice known as "SIM swapping." Two lawyers ...
As SIM swap attacks are often seen as non-demanding regarding technical skills, users must be diligent with their identity security. Despite the rise of cybersecurity infrastructure, online identity ...