For many years, mobile phones received cellular service through a physical SIM (subscriber identity module) card that connected your handset to your phone carrier. These physical SIM cards made it ...

Criminals don't need a physical SIM card to make the swap. In most cases, they call the mobile carrier and impersonate a victim. Here's how to protect yourself.

Have you heard of SIM cloning or SIM swapping? We're talking about the SIM card inside your cell phone and how attackers can take advantage of it. Jonathan Kimmitt with Alias Cyber Security ...

Switching phones or plans once meant juggling tiny SIM cards. Now, with eSIMs, connectivity is simpler yet more complex. In ...

SIM Swapping: How the Latest Cellphone Hacking Scam Works, And How to Protect Yourself The scam – involving control of the SIM card we all have in our phones – is shockingly simple ...

There are few devices that better exemplify the breakneck pace of modern technical advancement than the mobile phone. In the span of just a decade, we went from flip phones and polyphonic ringtones… ...

SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target's phone number by porting it into a new eSIM card, a digital SIM stored in a rewritable chip present on many recent smartphone models.

Some phones allow you to remove the physical SIM card, which allows you to easily swap phones or carriers.