SIM cards have been an integral yet often forgotten part of owning a smartphone for the past few decades. For most users, the SIM card defines the basic commercial relationship they have with their ...

SINGAPORE: When Christinah Heng answered a call in October from a local number she did not recognise, alarm bells did not ring. The interior design boss, 53, will pick up local calls because of her ...

Fraudulently obtained SIM cards, often using civilians’ Aadhaar details, allowed them to evade law enforcement. Following the probe, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued directives ...

SIM cards, the small slips of plastic that have held your mobile subscriber information since time immemorial, are on the verge of extinction. In an effort to save space for other components, device ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. This is not as easy as it sounds — and it’s not common advice. But ...

India has mandated an active SIM linkage for messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to work on a device in the coming days, with the government asserting that 'SIM binding' is essential to ...

A new directive will soon require users to access apps like WhatsApp only with theirregistered SIM card. The Centre is changing the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram work. A new directive from the ...

Home Office accused of putting criminality before dignity with rule seeking intelligence on people-smugglers Children who arrive in the UK on small boats could be searched to check if they are ...

Ahmedabad: The Cybercrime police on Monday arrested three men for issuing sim cards in the names of unsuspecting customers and routing them to cyberfraud operators in Dubai and Cambodia. The FIR was ...

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued an advisory, cautioning citizens against using mobile devices with tampered IMEI numbers , and warned that mobile subscribers may be held liable if a SIM ...

Kenyans registering new SIM cards may soon have to submit some of the most intimate biological identifiers known to science, including DNA analysis, blood type, and detailed biometric markers, under ...