Losing the phone is expensive. Losing your banking apps, UPI, WhatsApp, email, passwords, photographs and digital identity can be considerably worse.

If you bank online, you probably know the routine. You enter your password and then wait for a six-digit code to arrive by text. That extra step is supposed to help ...

A SIM card is a necessity for connecting your phone to a cellular network. Unfortunately, that necessity can come with a very big risk. Criminals use a tactic called SIM fraud or SIM swapping to gain ...

a person's finger holding up a SIM card with a phone in the background - Towfiqu Ahamed/Getty Images A SIM card is a necessity for connecting your phone to a cellular network. Unfortunately, that ...

The latest Android Canary build includes an automatic SIM lock protection feature. This feature saves you from having to enter your SIM card’s PIN when rebooting your phone. This comes several weeks ...

Android 17 Beta 2 just dropped, and as you might expect, people are already diving in to see what's new. Of course, others are diving in even further, analyzing code to see what might eventually ...

SIM cards, the small slips of plastic that have held your mobile subscriber information since time immemorial, are on the verge of extinction. In an effort to save space for other components, device ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. This is not as easy as it sounds — and it’s not common advice.

A threat actor has compromised 850,000 Orange Belgium customer accounts, with SIM card numbers and Personal Unblocking Key (PUK) codes among the data potentially accessed. The attack has raised fears ...