Identifying a private phone number associated with someone’s Google account could make it easier for skilled hackers to take control of that phone number through a SIM swap attack, for example.

Nothing launched its ‘first true flagship,’ the Phone (3), in London recently. While the phone came with a very different design and a new Glyph interface, many were shocked at its price of Rs ...

Fake numbers are being displayed on real company websites. Here's how to identify and avoid falling victim to this attack.

Verizon has responded to the alleged hack of 61 million customer records that contain full names, tax IDs, addresses, and phone numbers.

This is, they say, because it does nothing to tackle rising numbers being signed off over the phone rather than in-person as too sick to work since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Google has stepped in to address a security flaw that could have made it possible to brute-force an account's recovery phone number, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks. The issue, ...

There are major privacy implications in “brute-forcing the phone number of any Google user,” as brutecat describes it, not least because it’s the unique identifier in secure messaging and ...

Oxfam – doesn’t need phone number, but does want address. I can live with that (especially as I already donate to them). Donated (again) World Vision – wants phone number. Sorry. VACCA (Victorian ...