Is Your Mobile Number at Risk of Being Stolen?

Welcome to our Computer Techs Newsletter! We plan to bring you helpful technology tips each month that can simplify your life at work and home and keep you better protected from cybercrime.

First, Google has gotten a bad rap for being “evil” in the past, but this tech giant that paved the way to search as we know it isn’t all bad. We’ll tell you why.

Next, you won’t want to miss our article about the things you need to do to keep your mobile phone number safe from a hacker that tries to SIM-swap or otherwise steal your number.

Finally, password theft is on the rise. Did you know that Computer Techs can help you with the recovery of forgotten passwords and hacked accounts?

Your mobile phone number has become increasingly valuable because it’s the way that hackers can gain access to your online financial, email and social media accounts. We now are encouraged to use our smartphone and attached phone number to prove who we are – often via Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), a method that requires not only entering your username/email address and password into a website, but also entering a code or responding to a prompt sent to your cell phone...