This week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Stephen Defiore, a Florida resident, accepted "multiple bribes" of up to $500 per day to perform the switches required to reroute phone numbers ...

Two men were sentenced for operating a nationwide hack scheme and stealing $330,000 in crypto. Eric Meiggs, 24, and Declan Harrington, 22, used an illegal practice known as "SIM swapping." Two lawyers ...

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Every mobile phone sports a subscriber identity module (SIM) card that contains all sorts of unique information about the phone, the user, and their carrier. The critical element, however, is the ...

Imagine your phone isn’t working. It’s odd, but this should be an easy fix. You contact your phone carrier and are told that you requested a new SIM card. But you never requested a SIM card or called ...

A subscriber identity module (SIM) was traditionally a small, removable card in your mobile phone that identified your phone number and authenticated your identity to a mobile network. When you got a ...

We live in a fast-paced digital world, and smartphones have become a staple of our everyday lives. We rely on the device for everything from communication to banking to controlling all of our ...

The eSIM standard was introduced in 2016, slowly gaining support as a secondary option in smartphones. Rather than holding ...