[Jason Gin] wanted to reuse the SIM card that came with a ZTE WF721 wireless terminal he got from AT&T, but as he expected, it was locked to the device. Unfortunately, the terminal has no function ...

The hack, which is less a hack and more social engineering, is basically a form of identity theft, with the attacker swapping a victim's sim card remotely, usually with the help of your cell phone ...

Mumbai: In one of the biggest cyber fraud cases registered this year, a steel trading company suffered a loss of Rs 7.

Apparently some of the traffic lights in Johannesburg, South Africa have SIM cards in them to help maintain the network without a physical connection. Now that’s some and not all, but apparently ...

GCHQ and the US National Security Agency hacked into the internal network of the largest makers of mobile phone SIM cards in the world in order to steal encryption keys and compromise the security ...

Once they have the data they need, the hacker will contact the person’s cell phone provider and claim that their SIM card has been lost or damaged and request that a new ... phone company’s assurances ...

Tucked into that story was a phrase I hadn't heard before, a type of hack I'd had to look up: SIM swapping. In a SIM swap, the hacker doesn't need to physically steal your SIM card — the thing ...

a SIM swap happens when cyber cheats take over control of the phone by tricking the mobile service provider to connect it to a SIM card in their possession. With the help of the new SIM ...

I am at a loss how they identified themselves," Mr Wanjiku said, adding that a bank account not linked to his mobile phone was also hacked. People tend to have several Sim cards from different ...