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 ...

[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 ...

T-Mobile was ordered to pay $33 million in damages after losing an arbitration case tied to a SIM swapping scam.

The company has over 450 mobile network operators as customers, which means billions of mobile device users might currently use one such SIM card. An earlier report revealed that the Gemalto hack ...

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 ...

T-Mobile paid $33 million in a private arbitration process over a SIM swap attack leading to cryptocurrency theft.

phishing and exchange hacks. When a hacker takes over a victim's phone number by deceiving or buying off a mobile carrier ...

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 ...