Cybercriminals are exploiting USSD codes, disguised as delivery agents, to activate call forwarding on unsuspecting citizens' ...

A pair of Android vulnerabilities in ever version prior to KitKat could give an attacker the ability to make and end phone calls and send USSD codes using a malicious application. A pair of ...

Participants at the Nigeria Fintech Week in Lagos on Tuesday said telecommunications, banks and Fintech stakeholders needed to partner to make USSD short codes free to all users to boost financial ...

Participants at the Nigeria Fintech Week in Lagos on Tuesday said telecommunications, banks and Fintech stakeholders needed to partner to make USSD short codes free to all users to boost financial ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a fresh warning to the public after detecting a new cybercrime pattern ...

The Factory Reset. One of those last ditch efforts that many of us have a fair bit of experience with. However, a malicious embed code could potentially do the exact same thing to your Galaxy S III.

If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and ...

A security research team at the Ekoparty Security Conference has demonstrated a single line of USSD code that can be used to completely reset a Samsung S III handset and ‘kill’ the owners SIM card in ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) says the board will introduce the use of USSD code as an option to the SMS process of generating a profile code for registration. This, it said, ...

This code displays the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number of your Android phone, a unique identifier essential for identifying your device. This code shows the Specific Absorption ...