Learn why phone numbers are critical to online security, how they’re exposed, and practical steps to reduce misuse, scams, and account takeover risks.

We hear lots of stories of people getting hacked or getting duped into giving out personal information but despite their growing regularity, few take action to protect their online identities. Many ...

BleepingComputer has been focusing on alerting our readers to interesting phishing email campaigns that stand out from the normal invoices, summons, parking tickets, and shipping notifications that we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Now Google has issued a new warning for users who lose their phone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 25, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

A security researcher has discovered a bug that could be exploited to reveal the private recovery phone number of almost any Google account without alerting its owner, potentially exposing users to ...

Google has said the addition of a recovery phone number is able to block all automated bot attempts to access accounts via credential stuffing. The search giant conducted a year-long study with New ...

Anyone who's ever had their Google account hacked can tell you what a pain it is to recover. You'll spend hours or even days on it, and recovery isn't guaranteed, no matter what you do. On Wednesday, ...

In case you haven't already set up a recovery phone number for your Google account, and enabled extra security features like multifactor authentication, the search giant is using hard data to explain ...

Removing your phone number from your Google account is a straightforward process, but it's crucial to understand the steps and potential implications to ensure your account remains secure. Here’s a ...

Your phone number was never meant to be an all-access pass to your life. There's a way to mitigate the very real risks that come with treating your phone number like both a public identifier and a key ...