Cellphone users in Europe and the rest of the world may be just as vulnerable as the actor Hugh Grant and other celebrities to having their personal voice mail hacked – or worse – because of outdated mobile network security

Posted: 2011/12/27 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

In a study of 31 mobile operators in Europe, Morocco and Thailand, Karsten Nohl, a Berlin hacker and mobile security expert, found that many operators provided poor or weak defenses to protect consumers from illicit surveillance and identity theft.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/technology/26iht-hack26.html

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