Google quietly links your phone number to every Android account on your SIM
Adding a SIM now ties your phone number to all Google accounts - and future accounts inherit it. Here's the security and privacy stakes.

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Adding a SIM now ties your phone number to all Google accounts - and future accounts inherit it. Here's the security and privacy stakes.
The billionaire investor says brute-force AI attacks will be met with brute-force AI defenses - and he's 'not a doomer.'
A vulnerability in the code behind a large share of the web is triggering a worldwide scramble to patch, and it's a reminder that your stack's oldest dependencies can be its biggest risk.
Security researchers enumerated thousands of Meta Muse share links, exposing personal and business data despite Zuckerberg's privacy promise.
The UK's top spy says AI is making biological attacks more accessible; Johns Hopkins' Tom Inglesby explains why governments are scrambling and what safeguards could stop it.
A federal judge refused to release Abdulrahman Alfozan, citing flight risk and Saudi government support for his bond, deepening a national security case.
The federal ban on the low-cost Chinese model signals a new front in AI supply-chain security, with compliance and vendor implications.
A Savannah officer's shared credential let an ICE agent run hundreds of plate searches on Hispanic drivers, exposing a surveillance backdoor.
The demonstration shows self-replicating AI can run on ordinary devices, with Anthropic warning the threat becomes practical by year-end.
The 28-year-old suspect is accused of being part of the gang that hit Synnovis in 2024, a case with major lessons for critical-infrastructure security.
The biggest US bank just made agentic AI's consumer moment a security question, and Meta's finance push is caught in the crossfire.
The 2015 arms embargo hasn't stopped Iran-backed Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. Here's why the threat keeps growing.