Hey guys, I've heard a ton of youtubers complaining that random people have been able to social engineer their cellular provider into programming a new SIM card with the victim's account, and giving it to them to put in the attacker's phone. From there they can often use a combination of SMS, call history, and various things you get "for free" just by holding a phone that identifies as a certain number, to hack other accounts from there. And so on.

I know organizations like the Social Security Administration have specific mechanisms in place to alert them that you might have reason to expect being attacked online, and they can block access for someone trying to register a new account. (See here)

There are also things you can do with a credit agency so that it makes it very difficult for someone to register for a new credit card in your name, which is a good way to combat identity theft.

Does Verizon or the other major US carriers have similar mitigations for people who may have enough info "out there" for random people to socially engineer a naive customer rep to give them an activated SIM card?

Morning

@user2284570 I think SE staff were very patient with you. Not sure why you were being so aggressive to them and now coming on here to highlight your issue

@allquixotic what are you actually asking? If some companies have extra protection? Best ask them, to be honest

Anyone aware of free security books on windows ?

I already know of SEV01

I am looking for free books on infosec and other things myself...

Haven't found anything interesting yet...

amazon.com/Getting-Started-Windows-Server-Security/dp/…

That's the one which is pretty much up to date, it covers Server 2012

thanks, going to look now

@Mathematics My goto Windows book is Windows Internals.