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  2. Cybersecurity 101: How to protect your cell phone number and ...

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    What you can do to protect your phone number. Just like you can apply two-factor authentication to your online accounts, you can add a secondary security code to your cell phone account, too. You ...

  3. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Contents. SMS spoofing. SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name ...

  4. Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here's how to ...

    techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/remove-android-spyware

    If you do not recognize a downloaded service in the Accessibility options, you may want to switch it off in the settings and remove the app. Some stalkerware apps are disguised as ordinary looking ...

  5. Phishing - Wikipedia

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    SMS phishing or smishing is a type of phishing attack that uses text messages from a cell phone or smartphone to deliver a bait message. The victim is usually asked to click a link, call a phone number, or contact an email address provided by the attacker.

  6. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Caller ID spoofing. Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed.

  7. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

  8. Telegram is auctioning phone numbers to let users sign up to ...

    techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/telegram-is-auctioning...

    You can buy a random number for as low as nine toncoins, which is equivalent to roughly $16.50 at the time of writing. Some of the premium virtual numbers — such as +888-8-888 — are selling ...

  9. iOS 16 will let you report spam SMS messages - Engadget

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    MacRumors reported that junk SMS messages will soon be included in the reporting feature on iOS 16 beta 2, which was released today for developers and will roll out to the public this July. Apple ...