Tech Digest

Recycled phone numbers leaving users exposed to hacking, Which? warns

Mobile phone users could be at risk of hacking, nuisance calls and messages or having their phone cut off due to little-known rules around recycling of old phone numbers, Which? warns. The consumer ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too

Port-out hijacking goes a step beyond hacking into a store, bank or credit card account. In this case, the thieves take over your phone number. Any calls or texts go to them, not to you. When your own ...
Forbes

Here’s What To Do If You Fall Victim To Phone Hacking

Anonymous hacker programmer uses a laptop to hack the system in the dark. Creation and infection of malicious virus. The concept of cybercrime and hacking database With phones now central to ...
MacRumors

Authy Users Urged to Stay Alert After 33 Million Phone Numbers Exposed

Twilio has updated its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service after a hacker claimed to have retrieved 33 million phone numbers from its user database. TechCrunch reports that the hacker(s) ...
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‘We’re still living under the shadow of phone hacking’: Inside the making of extraordinary drama The Hack

Is it possible for a news story to be both widely known and not really known at all? The News of the World phone-hacking scandal may be such a paradox. Everyone knows the rudiments of the story – when ...