Tech Society

The phone… we simply cannot do without out these days. We could forget the important stuff, but God forbid we forget our phone anywhere, unattended. It’s not this way for everyone, but wouldn’t be wrong to say it is for a major population. Work, entertainment, socializing, or staying in touch, it’s become a need for its multifold uses.  While these are the positives, there’s also a lot that goes on that we cannot see. Hacking! People looking to steal significant information from various phones develop techniques to hack into phones, and you won’t even realize when and how it happened.  But there are things you can do to protect your device from getting hacked.  1) Don’t use unprotected WIFI’s. Using a public network is one of the most dangerous things for your device since it is open to several people.  2) Don’t leave your phone with strangers. If you don’t know someone too well, don’t leave your phone unattended. Take it with you, even if you’re splittin...

Cyber hackers have discovered a very clever way to plunder money without making too much effort on their part. they found a way to hack into people’s SIM cards and then use that to steal a man’s life savings. Robert Ross of San Francisco, US noticed something strange on his phone. The network bars on his phone disappeared and he had no network for a while. After a few hours, he was notified that his life savings of $1 million had disappeared forever. How did hackers use his hacked SIM to access his bank savings? This happened because the hackers hijacked his phone number and transferred it to a SIM card they had, they used the newly gained control of his number, reset his email password, and then use that info to hack into his banking account. “I was at home at my desk and I noticed a notification on my iPhone for a withdrawal request from one of my financial institutions, and I thought, ‘That’s weird. I didn’t make a withdrawal request.’ Then I looked back at m...