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SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, And The Flaw Could Affect Millions Of Phones

Forbes: Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card.

Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of SIM cards, and open up another route on mobile phones for surveillance and fraud.

In2iti0n3930d ago

I'm surprised this hasn't been done earlier. Good job, nonetheless.

kingPoS3922d ago

I guess this is what happens when a format comes to it's end. Time for a new and better one just like the jump from IPv4.

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The CIA and NSA use ad-blockers because they're just as vulnerable as you are

Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.

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Hold your shock, the NSA has been collecting even more call records than they told us

From documents obtained by the ACLU, it turns out that the NSA illegally collected call records after it promised to stop collecting them.

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Senior NSA official says tech is wondrous -- and risky in a world of cyberspace foes

In an exclusive interview with chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, the new head of NSA cybersecurity discusses evolving threats.