With a SIM-swapping attack, scammers hijack your phone number to gain access to apps on your phone—including banking apps.

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Mobile phone users could be at risk of hacking, nuisance calls and messages or having their phone cut off due to little-known rules around recycling of old phone numbers, Which? warns. The consumer ...

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To more effectively reach students with emergency information, the campus is adding the mobile phone numbers of students to its WarnMe notification system to support text messaging. All student ...

Although there's a pretty good chance you already have a phone number on your smartphone, your primary number assigned by your carrier isn't your only option for calling and texting. There are ...

Another day, another massive data breach claimed by hackers. Days after a breach at T-Mobile exposed about 53 million people’s personal information, a hacking group known as ShinyHunters announced ...

Burner phone numbers are phone numbers you can attach to your primary phone as a secondary number. They are often disposable, so you can simply stop using it like you would a normal burner phone.

How does WhatsApp use your phone number? That’s a question on people’s minds as the messaging giant continues to dominate mobile devices. As a Facebook-owned entity, privacy-conscious people wouldn’t ...

A decade ago, your mobile phone number may not have meant much. In the days before number porting, mobile phone numbers were transient. If you switched carriers or moved, you got a new number. Things ...