Hackers have been known to use all manner of remote access tools to break into mobile phones, often by finding vulnerabilities in an operating system like Android or even in SIM cards. It’s more rare ...

Security researchers say they have caught a surveillance company in the Middle East exploiting a new attack capable of tricking phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber’s location. The attack ...

Hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress 31c3 is under way in Hamburg, Germany right now where a cluster of SS7 talks have revealed the ease of invasive cell phone surveillance. Three ...

Lawmakers and security experts have long warned of security flaws in the underbelly of the world’s cell networks. Now a whistleblower says the Saudi government is exploiting those flaws to track its ...

The existence of Signaling System 7 (SS7) mobile telephony protocol vulnerabilities is something security researchers warned about in 2016, and it only took a year before the first attacks exploiting ...

Even where users have chosen strong passwords and taken extra security measures, their Facebook accounts are not safe from hackers. Researchers have proven just that by taking control of a Facebook ...