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 ...

Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Hackers have proven just how urgently a gaping flaw in the global telecoms network, affecting what's known as Signalling System ...

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 ...

The same security flaws that cursed the older SS7 standard and were used with 3G, 2G and earlier are prevalent in the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard, ...

For years, experts have warned of vulnerabilities in the network that routes phone calls and cellular service — but those attacks may be more widespread than anyone realized. For more than a year, a ...

The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around ...

Hackers have taken advantage of a known security vulnerability in mobile networks that allowed them to intercept two-factor authentication messages to hijack user login information and drain bank ...

A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts, according to a report ...

Two-factor authentication may be the best way of keeping our online accounts safe, but even this system has vulnerabilities. In Germany, a known security flaw in a networking protocol used by ...

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 ...