Today, users have to be careful about picking up calls from an unknown number. It may be likely to be your friend or a business associate. But, conversely, it may be a harmful scammer or a troublesome ...
Last month, we looked at how scammers can gain access to your phone number and how data breaches and phishing campaigns could make obtaining it easy. In this blogpost, we’ll focus more on why phone ...
Earlier this month, I received a notification to make a chargeable call on my prepaid SIM card to avoid my number being de-activated. The notification comes whenever I’ve almost gone 90 days without ...
Receiving calls from unknown phone numbers is a common occurrence. And when it happens, we usually make two decisions: pick or ignore. When we pick, we sometimes instantly regret it. Why? Because it ...
Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out. By Brian X. Chen For most of our lives, we have ...
Two years ago, I got a new phone number. In the eyes of my social media and ride-hailing apps, Amazon, my bank, and the state of Pennsylvania, that effectively meant I lost my identity. Only recently ...