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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

Krebs on Security

Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. AT&T in particular has had a rough month.

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SIM Swap Scams: How SIM Swapping Works and How To Protect Yourself

Identity IQ

SIM Swap Scams: How SIM Swapping Works and How To Protect Yourself IdentityIQ According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, SIM swap scams are on the rise. If you’re unfamiliar with this scam, it takes advantage of people’s lack of knowledge of how SIM cards work and puts their information at risk.

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FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud

Krebs on Security

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s online identity.

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Taking on the Next Generation of Phishing Scams

Google Security

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. As phishing adoption has grown, multi-factor authentication has become a particular focus for attackers.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Krebs on Security

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Image: Cloudflare.com.

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Can Your Identity Be Stolen from Your Phone Number?

Identity IQ

Texting Scams. SIM swapping is a scam where criminals get your real phone number transferred to a SIM card in their possession. Once they have this info, they can call your wireless provider, pretending to be you, and have your number moved over to their cell phone. What is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)? SIM Swapping.

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U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

Krebs on Security

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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