A set of wireless
signaling protocols is the great way for spies enables listen to your cellphone
call and see your messages, leading to Digital
Marketing Agency reported.
By this way, Spies
don't need ultra-sophisticated tools to listen in on mobile device
conversations or read text messages.
Vulnerabilities in
Signaling System 7, telephony signaling protocols used by carriers worldwide,
allow third parties to listen to people's cellphone calls and intercept text
messages despite encryption, according to the Washington Post reported last
week.
One more thing these
vulnerabilities have been discovered by German cyber security researchers
Tobias Engel of Sternraute and Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs.
“SS7 was created before
there was an Internet and was never designed to be secure in today's world,”
said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
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