Two-minute SIM card hack could leave 25 percent of phones vulnerable to spying
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Update: CNN reported on 1st August that five major carriers have pushed out a patch to block the vulnerability.
A two-minute SIM card hack could enable a hacker to listen to your phone calls, send text messages from your phone number and make mobile payments from your account. The vulnerability, discovered by a German security researcher, is present in an estimated 750 million SIM cards – around one in four of all SIM cards.
Give me any phone number and there is some chance I will, a few minutes later, be able to remotely control this SIM card and even make a copy of it …
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