Why are Phone Numbers Used for Identification? Hacker Summer Camp Advice, Samsung Repair Mode

Phone Numbers Used for Identification, Hacker Summer Camp Advice, Samsung Repair Mode

Why your phone number is becoming a popular way to identify you, our advise on how to best protect your privacy at hacker summer camp in Las Vegas (BSides, BlackHat, DEF CON), ...
Part of the exposed database. Source: TechCrunch

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers found lying around on the internet

TechCrunch reports that a security researcher stumbled across an exposed server on the internet containing databases with a total of more than 419 million records related to Facebook users. According to TechCrunch’s ...

Google Chrome Zero-Day, Facebook Phone Number Privacy, NSA Phone Data Collection Program

This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for March 11th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: a new Google Chrome Zero-Day, how Facebook uses your phone number, and ...