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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Krebs on Security

Nixon said she and her colleagues noticed in the preceding months a huge uptick in SIM-swapping attacks , a scheme in which fraudsters trick or bribe employees at wireless phone companies into redirecting the target’s text messages and phone calls to a device they control. Don’t re-use passwords.

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