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SIM Swapping is in the news again, reminding us the US has let this madness continue while other countries took strong steps to stop it. The latest headlines involve celebrity Twitter accounts getting hacked (including Jessica Alba and even the CEO of Twitter himself) but most SIM swaps target ordinary people with more sinister results. The small removable SIM card in your mobile phone allows it to communicate with your carrier’s cell towers. A SIM swap attack doesn't physica

Apple’s new iPhone X hit stores November 3rd. Its most talked about feature is Face ID. Instead of touching your finger to the phone to unlock it, just look at the camera and it recognizes your face. Face ID is more accurate than the old Touch ID. Does that mean it’s more secure? Taproot Security studied technical specs on Face ID and found potential vulnerabilities. I enumerated these in a private letter to Apple one month ago, along with ten recommendations to improve

Many think the Apple versus FBI saga ended when a third party offered to crack Syed Farook’s iPhone and the FBI withdrew its formal request to Apple for assistance. But industry insiders are still waiting for one last episode to reveal a Phantom Menace. The phantom menace in this case is an undisclosed iPhone vulnerability the mysterious third party used to crack Farook’s iPhone 5c. We don’t know what the vulnerability was or whether it’s still present in current iPhone mod