T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs

I still stand by this: if #sms #mfa wasn’t still massively used (especially by the financial sector), sim swaps would be less attractive to sim swappers.

It’s also crazy so much trust is placed in telecoms guarding your phone number and MFA factor for your bank. 🫨

#security #cybersecurity #simswap

https://tmo.report/2024/04/t-mobile-employees-across-the-country-receive-cash-offers-to-illegally-swap-sims/

T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs

T-Mobile employees, both third-party and corporate, are receiving cash offers via text to complete SIM swaps for criminals.

^{Jman100 (The Mobile Report)}

With news of the latest AT&T #databreach affecting over 70 million people, it is important to stay vigilant against #phishing & suspicious #SMS messages claiming to be from #ATT. 📣

Learn more about protecting yourself here: https://tuta.com/blog/what-is-credential-stuffing

Stay safe out there! 🔒

#XSF Announcement

We are a Google Summer of Code 2024 umbrella organization!

Project idea 7 of 7:
@prav App - Standards compliant #SMS #OTP based #authentication

https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Prav.app/Standards_compliant_SMS_OTP_based_authentication

#XMPP #jabber #chat #GSoC2024 #GSOC #Google
#interoperability #standards #android #java

If you're using (or thinking of switching to) @aaisp VoIP services and also use #xmpp, the incredible singpolyma of https://jmp.chat and https://cheogram.com fame has set up an #sms bridge for general use. To set up:

1. Add xmpp:cheogram.com to your contacts
2. Type 'register aa.sgx.soprani.ca'
3. Type in your phone number and SIP password, and follow instructions for sending incoming messages to the bridge.

Code is at https://git.singpolyma.net/sgx-aa with more updates on the way; feel free to support singpolyma's work on https://jmp.chat and https://liberapay.com/singpolyma

JMP.chat

Your phone number on every device

^jmp.chat