'Simjacker' Attack Can Track Phones Just by Sending a Text

'Simjacker' Attack Can Track Phones Just by Sending a Text

A lot of important news happened this week in the world of cybersecurity, but let's start with this: It's becoming increasingly hard to collect the money Equifax owes you from the settlement over its disastrous breach. Do not be cowed! You can still get your $125, or even more. Here's how. And with that, on to the news!

Despite the hoopla over Apple's latest iPhones, the biggest iOS news this month might be the recent large-scale hacking campaign against it. We took a look at what specifically is behind Apple's security woes: specifically, vulnerabilities related to how iOS deploys iMessage and Safari. And while IoT security has surprisingly improved of late, it still has a long, long, very extremely long way to go.


The Department of Justice this week announced the arrest of nearly 300 individuals in connection with email scams that bilked people out of millions. A new look at the 2016 cyberattack that triggered a blackout in Ukraine showed that the intended results may have been far more explosive than what transpired.


And national security adviser John Bolton has left the White House. For those keeping score at home, that's Donald Trump's third, leaving critics ..

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