If you've ever called your carrier's customer service to activate a prepaid SIM card or troubleshoot a malfunctioning Android SIM card or iPhone SIM, then you've likely needed your ICCID number. The ...

Zoltan Szabo, head of the digital forensics and information assurance program at Richland College, demonstrated how to extract information from a SIM card in his digital forensics class. If you’re not ...

Chiara is an award-winning investigative reporter who specialises in banking and fraud, joining Which? in 2015 following six years as a personal finance journalist at a national newspaper. Reports to ...

Cloning of SIM or SIM swapping is a technique using which a malicious actor can create a duplicate of a SIM card in such a way that both the original and the cloned SIM, work at the same time without ...

Google Fi has implemented a Number Lock feature to fight illegal SIM swaps. This feature blocks your number from being transferred to another phone or to a new network. The FCC announced new rules to ...

Chiara is an award-winning investigative reporter who specialises in banking and fraud, joining Which? in 2015 following six years as a personal finance journalist at a national newspaper. Reports of ...

As the last few years have shown, it’s more important than ever to protect our data. If the big tech giants and data aggregation firms aren’t making us vulnerable by lax data protection policies, ...

SIM-swapping fraud occurs when criminals gain control of a victim's mobile phone number by tricking the network provider into ...

If you’re not familiar with SIM swap fraud, prepare to be terrified. This scam, also known as port-out or SIM splitting fraud, allows criminals to hijack your cellphone number. Once they have your ...