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 ...

Next time your phone rings and the caller ID says it’s your bank, telecom company or employer’s IT department, it might be someone else. That’s because little-discussed types of SIM cards offer the ...

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 ...

The world’s biggest SIM manufacturer Gemalto says its SIM cards are secure despite claims US and UK spy agencies hacked them to monitor the calls, texts and emails of billions of users worldwide. As ...

Sim cards made by Gemalto are “secure” despite reports that GCHQ and NSA hacked the company’s databases, it said today. Last week, reports said that the British and American intelligence agencies ...

Protect your digital life from SIM-swap fraud by locking your SIM card with a personal PIN. This crucial step prevents ...

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.

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.