Collaborate Disseminate
SIM hijacking — or SIM swapping — is an attack where a fraudster contacts your cell phone provider and convinces them to switch your account to a phone that they control. Since your smartphone often serves as a security measure or backup verification system, this allows the fraudster to take over other accounts of yours. Sometimes this involves people inside… Continue reading SIM Hijacking
Pine64 will finally start shipping the pre-order units of PinePhone Braveheart Edition on January 17, 2020. Fossbytes reports: A year ago, PinePhone was made available only to developers and hackers. After getting better responses and suggestions, the … Continue reading PinePhone Linux Smartphone Shipment Finally Begins
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Riding through a remote valley in Mongolia on the back of his motorbike, adventurer Jamie Clarke let the hum of the engine and the wind echo in his mind while his thoughts wandered. After several hours,… Continue reading Dad Takes Son To Mongolia Just To Get Him Off His Phone
Bloomberg looks back at what tech industry titans predicted would be happening “by 2020.”
– Here’s what Huawei Technologies Co. said in 2015 predicting a “superphone” by 2020, according to ZDNet: “Inspired by the biological evolution, the mobile phone … Continue reading Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven’t Happened (Yet)
Rog Srigley, writer who teaches at Humber College and Laurentian University, offered his students extra credit if they would give him their phones for nine days and write about living without them. “What they wrote was remarkable, and remarkably consis… Continue reading ‘I Asked My Students To Turn In Their Cellphones and Write About Living Without Them’
Motorola is slightly delaying its reimagined foldable Razr flip phone, citing an unexpectedly high demand. Android Police reports: Pre-orders were originally slated to begin on December 26th, ahead of the launch on January 9th, but it looks like we’ll … Continue reading Motorola Delays Razr To Meet Unexpectedly High Demand
After months of negotiations, Congress approved a landmark bill on Thursday to stop the flood of illegal robocalls. The president is expected to sign it into law within the next few days. The Verge reports: The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforce… Continue reading Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law
According to a new study published in Current Biology, the “night mode” on your phone could actually be worse for your sleep pattern. Scientists say the blue light, which is significantly reduced when night mode is enabled, could be telling our brain t… Continue reading Night Mode Could Actually Be Worse For Your Sleep Pattern, Study Finds
Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many ways no better than SS7, the decades-old phone system carriers still used for calling and texting, which has long been known to be vulnerable to interception and spoofing attacks. While using end-to-end encrypted internet-based tools… Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
In addition to the flagship Snapdragon 865 processor, Qualcomm announced details about its other new chip, the midrange Snapdragon 765. “The 765 might actually be the more interesting of the two, thanks to its integrated 5G modem and its likely future … Continue reading Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 Chip Could Usher In the First Affordable 5G Phones