We live in a fast-paced digital world, and smartphones have become a staple of our everyday lives. We rely on the device for everything from communication to banking to controlling all of our ...

Have you heard of SIM swapping? It’s a new trick that hackers are using to get money and mess up your life. So, what is SIM swapping? It’s when a hacker tricks your cell phone company into thinking ...

Smartphones have been a boon to productivity and convenience. Many consumers have shifted their banking and investment transactions to the time-saving apps on their phones. But along with convenience, ...

A San Fernando Valley, California, man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after orchestrating a massive fraud operation that targeted dozens of victims, many of them elderly.

SIM swapping is one of the more nefarious and difficult-to-deal-with cybercrimes that can affect phone users. However, a new feature from AT&T, called Wireless Account Lock, wants to help defend ...

Once a number is transferred to a new SIM under criminal control, victims can be locked out of their phones, while criminals ...

A growing number of cyber-criminals are collecting personal information shared on social media to hijack people's mobile phone numbers, police have said. Fraudsters then steal bank security codes as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Westlake residents have been arrested by Palm Beach Police, who say the pair executed an elaborate financial fraud known as ...

A subscriber identity module (SIM) was traditionally a small, removable card in your mobile phone that identified your phone number and authenticated your identity to a mobile network. When you got a ...