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SEC X Account Hack is a Case of SIM Swapping
The bad actor who hacked into the X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month gained access through a SIM swapping attack on the agency’s phone linked to ...
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FCC Warns Carriers to Protect Customers Against SIM Swaps
A month after issuing new rules to push back against SIM-swap and similar schemes, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is warning mobile phone service providers of their obligations to protect consumers against ...
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FCC’s Got New Rules for SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud
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Too many times: Federal Communications Commission shuts stable door after horse bolted. But chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) was hoping it would save us ...
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Teenage Hackers Must be Stopped: US DHS’s CSRB Report
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2FA SMS FAIL: Lapsus$ social engineers exploited weak two-factor authentication. Something must be done! (Well, this is something.) ...
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Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy
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Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of ...