The Justice Department recently, quietly unsealed an indictment that some mainstream and crypto media platforms quickly picked up and reported as charges that “solved” the mystery of a $400 million ...

Millions of mobile phones may be vulnerable to spying due to the use of outdated, 1970s-era cryptography, according to new research due to be presented at the Black Hat security conference. Karsten ...

Michael Terpin, a prominent bitcoin investor, had sued the leader of a ‘SIM swap gang’ after they stole $23.8 million in bitcoin from his precious wallet. Reading time 2 minutes A young man who was ...

PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. and British spies are likely to have hacked into SIM card maker Gemalto in an attempt to steal codes that protect the privacy of billions of mobile phone users, the ...

With six billion people worldwide now using mobile phones, it’s become clear how globally reliant we are on cellular technology. Of course no great new technological wonder comes without its risks.

Spy agencies allegedly hacked into the computer systems of a foreign commercial company to steal secrets that would allow them to tap into over a quarter of the world's cell phones. Late last week, ...

A flaw with mobile phones' Sim card technology is putting millions of people at risk of being spied on and robbed, according to a leading security expert. Karsten Nohl has said he has found a way to ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

SK Telecom has been ordered to compensate victims of a SIM card hacking incident with 100,000 Korean won per person. On the 21st, the Korea Consumer Agency Consumer Dispute Settlement Committee stated ...

* Gemalto press release: gemalto presents the findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of sim card encryption keys by britain's government communications headquarters (gchq)and the u.s.

On January 1, a technologist who goes by the nickname regexer received an email saying he had successfully reset his account at the crypto exchange Coinbase. Unfortunately — and worryingly — he had ...