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 ...
Reuters

Phone hacking victims get access to critical evidence

LONDON (Reuters) - Like all good tabloid tales, the News of the World saga is a scandal that keeps on giving. Investigators have spent months sharing thousands of pages of seized evidence with ...
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 ...
The Drum

Phone hacking: social media is the new front line

Tom Leatherbarrow, Head of B2B at Willoughby PR, blogs on #horsegate and how social media is the new front line in the phone hacking scandal. Amid the hilarity contained in the news that the ...
WTEN

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, ...