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Weaknesses within mobile phone network interconnection system allows criminals or governments to remotely snoop on anyone with a phone. Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone calls and texts is their phone number. The hack, first demonstrated by German security researcher Karsten Nohl in 2014 at a hacker convention in Hamburg, has been shown to still be active by Nohl over a year later for CBS’s 60 Minutes. The hack uses the network interchange service called Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), also known as C7 in the UK or CCSS7 in the US, which acts as a broker between mobile phone networks. When calls or text messages are made across networks SS7 handles details such as number translation, SMS transfer, billing and other back-end duties that connect one network or caller to another. Published By - Theguardian.com - LifeStyle News, Tech news, UK and world political comm...

Taiwanese manufacturer expects latest flagship Android Smartphone is going to solve the problems of the user, and switch on again the competition with Samsung and Apple The HTC, manufacturer of the first Android phone, is betting on speed, the duration of the battery and the first optically stabilized self-portrait camera in the world with its new flagship of HTC phone 10 hoping to relaunch the company. So the latest in his long line of high-end smartphones Android seems the best of the rest with a body completely of metal, glass front, HD Quad 5.2in, 0, 2-second release of the fingerprint scanner, the latest high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor and USB-C. HTC’s manufacturer build-quality and premium materials have always been top flight, but recent flagship phones have been uninspiring, failing to attract buyers, something the company must address. So the Celebrating a decade of making smartphones, Head of product marketing for HTC said: (We appreciate that in recent years we ha...