AT&T MST: Ditch Your Wallet, Not Your Security

Mst, or magnetic secure transmission, is a method by which your device pulses magnetic codes that simulate a card's magnetic stripe swiping across the reader head. In theory, it works. There are many things you can do to help protect yourself from fraud and keep your accounts and devices safe. A good place to start is with our top five security tips. Fraudsters can try to take advantage of you by phone, email, text or social media.

Helpful resources to help keep your wireless account. Learn ways to protect your wireless device: Add a password to open the device. Set up automatic updates. Turn on features like fingerprint readers and gps tracking. You will need to call at&t for your account number. But you should know your 4 digit security pin code. If you don't know what you have to reset it through your at&t account. If the password for the website is compromised you are done. With that information one could easily swap out the imei and iccid and hijack your account. If someone calls support.

If someone calls support.