Collaborate Disseminate
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
In the Security News this week, the evolutionary waves of the penetration testing, the SIM Hijackers, Roblox blames virtual “gang rape” on hack, thousands of Mega logins dumped online, Facebook refuses to remove fake news but demote it, all… Continue reading Pen Testing, SIM Hijackers, & Mining Bitcoin – Paul’s Security Weekly #568
In the Security News this week, the evolutionary waves of the penetration testing, the SIM Hijackers, Roblox blames virtual “gang rape” on hack, thousands of Mega logins dumped online, Facebook refuses to remove fake news but demote it, all… Continue reading Pen Testing, SIM Hijackers, & Mining Bitcoin – Paul’s Security Weekly #568
via Jon Brodkin – putting the scriv in scrivening at our beloved Ars Technica, looks into the latest United States Department of Justice investigation into a couple of mobile telephony giants. Read all about it, and weep for your SIM freedom.
Permalin… Continue reading Interesting DOJ Investigation: Peering Into Mobile Telecom Carriers eSIM Locking Attempts
When repairing something, there are in effect two schools of thought: you can craft a repair that seamlessly blends into the original hardware and doesn’t look like a repair, or you can slap that thing together and keep it moving. A lot of variables go into this decision making process, such as the complexity of the repair, the available materials, and of course whether or not you need to keep the fact you broke the thing from your significant other.
When the SIM holder on his Nexus 7 tablet broke recently, [Alex Whittemore] did the mental arithmetic and came to …read more
If you’ve been thinking of adding cellular connectivity to a build, here’s a way to try out a new service for free. Hologram.io has just announced a Developer Plan that will give you 1 megabyte of cellular data per month. The company also offers hardware to use with the SIM, but they bill themselves as hardware agnostic. Hologram is about providing a SIM card and the API necessary to use it with the hardware of your choice: any 2G, 3G, 4G, or LTE devices will work with the service.
At 1 MB/month it’s obvious that this is aimed at the …read more
Continue reading Hologram.io Offers Developers Free Cell Data
25 billion galaxies populated with 2 trillion particles will help calibrate a satellite on the hunt for dark matter. Continue reading Behold, the Largest Simulated Universe Ever Made
Project Highrise almost pulls it off. Continue reading ‘Project Highrise’ Is a Pale Yet Functional Shadow of ‘SimTower’