22 August 2011

Beware of rising phone hacking incidents | #phreakers #skype #gsm #GPRS

Amateur hackers are expected to be more active in hacking phone conversations with the growing availability of mobile encryption cracking tools, according to Ng Jun Wen, ICT Practice research analyst at Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific.

He point to Karsten Nohl, chief scientist of Berlin-based Security Research Labs, who noted that some network operators in Europe currently do not encrypt their GPRS network to monitor traffic and filter out viruses or software such as Skype.

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