Simjacker silent phone hack could affect a billion users

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:24:13 +0000

The shadowy world of phone-surveillance-for-hire became a little clearer last week following the discovery of a phone exploit called Simjacker.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/QZ2DMZ452TM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:18:49 +0000

Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called ‘j3ws3r on Twitter’: I’m here to warn the masses about SMS email gateways. Please look up how to disable it [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AeqxEVgRJLM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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