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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...