Collaborate Disseminate
More than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors, researchers warn. Continue reading 1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack
There are plenty of dual SIM phones on the market these days, but most of them are a hamstrung by packaging issues. Despite their dual SIM capability, this usually comes at the expense of the microSD card slot. Of course, hackers don’t accept such nonsense, and [Tweepy] went about crafting …read more
Continue reading Cramming Dual SIMs & A Micro SD Card Into Your Phone
A small group of victims of SIM swapping hacks is trying to raise awareness, teach people about the scam, and put pressure on cell phone providers to step up their efforts against cybercriminals. Continue reading SIM Swapping Victims Who Lost Millions Are Pressuring Telcos to Protect Their Customers
Sources who work for some of America’s major cellphone carriers tell us how criminals are trying to recruit them to get help hacking victims. Continue reading How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards
“Hi Daddy Love you,” texted the daughter of one of the hacker’s alleged victims. The reply: “TELL YOUR DAD TO GIVE US BITCOIN” Continue reading Alleged SIM-swap scammer nabbed for stealing $5m in Bitcoin
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for July 23rd, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Lost and Stolen Devices, Instagram and SIM Hijacking, LabCorp Security Breach
Researchers assumed the bird was dead when its GPS signal stopped moving. A few weeks later the team received a giant phone bill. Continue reading SIM card in bird’s GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill
Hackers are increasingly trying to take over phone numbers to target email and banking accounts. Here’s how to stop them. Continue reading How to Protect Your SIM Card and Phone Number
[Mike Harrison] talked about designing and building a huge scale LED lighting installation in which PCBs were used as both electrical and mechanical elements, and presented at Electromagnetic Field 2016. The project involved 84,000 RGBW LEDs, 14,000 microcontrollers and 25,000 PCBs. It had some different problems to solve compared to small jobs, but [Mike] shared techniques that could be equally applied to smaller scale projects or applications. He goes into detail on designing for manufacture and assembly, sourcing the parts, and building the units on-site.
The installation itself was a snowflake display for a high-end shopping mall in Hong Kong …read more
Continue reading SIM Card Connectors and White PCBs Make Huge LED Snowflakes Happen