For $10 fee, startup offers unlimited calls and texts
A San Francisco startup may have the solution parents have been seeking for years. Free phone service—without an expensive monthly contract.
Jan 31, 2020
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Dating apps: How to protect your personal data from hackers, advertisers
Setting up a profile on most dating apps is simple.
Jan 22, 2020
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Carriers' insecure procedures make life easy for SIM swap tricksters
So, you have confidence that you are safe from attackers who wreak havoc with authentication weaknesses? Think again or at least consider recent research findings. Five carriers used insecure authentication challenges—insecurity ...
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Report: Ransomware takes down online currency exchange
A week after a malicious virus infected its network, the London-based foreign currency exchange company Travelex had yet to restore digital sales and was reported infected with ransomware by hackers threatening to release ...
Jan 8, 2020
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Twitter Android app milked for matching phone numbers, accounts
Ibrahim Balic has become a name Twitter will certainly remember. The researcher discovered a flaw in a Twitter Android app that resulted in the sorry gift of matching 17 million phone numbers, when he uploaded them, with ...
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Researcher: Data on 267 million Facebook users exposed
A Ukrainian security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users—nearly all U.S.-based—on the open internet. That data was likely harvested ...
Dec 20, 2019
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'Hundreds of millions of people' may have had their text messages exposed online, researchers say
Some of your text messages may have been left exposed on the internet for the world to see.
Dec 2, 2019
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Mystery blurs dump of over 1 billion people's personal data
Two security sleuths last month discovered an enormous amount of data that was left exposed on a server. Data found on the server belonged to around 1.2 billion people.
Anti-robocall bill likely as House, Senate reach compromise
It's looking like an anti-robocall bill will get sent to President Donald Trump this year, helping tackle an infuriating problem in the U.S.
Nov 15, 2019
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Tech firms react to netizens' digital privacy concerns
Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online.
Nov 8, 2019
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