Signal messenger releases 'usernames' so you no longer need to tell someone your phone number in order for them to message you
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No more phone number swaps: Signal messaging app now testing usernames
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Have you ever had your phone number spoofed?
This is currently going on with me. Someone has spoofed my home phone number, and has been using it to call other people. Whenever the other person misses the spoofer's call they end up calling...
This is currently going on with me. Someone has spoofed my home phone number, and has been using it to call other people. Whenever the other person misses the spoofer's call they end up calling me. I have answered quite the handful of calls from this. It has been happening since Wednesday, and it has gotten often enough that I have been carrying around a wireless phone in my pocket. I did end up reporting it to the fcc, but that hasn't done anything yet.
Anyway this gets me wondering, have you ever had your phone number spoofed? If so, how did you deal with it?
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The phone bill security hole in HIPAA
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How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts
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Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
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For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
@jeremyburge: For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
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Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
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The SIM Hijackers
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