Apple has been taking security of their gadgets seriously for a long time. Even when the whole FBI vs Apple issue was going around, Apple released that theycan’t compromise their privacy policies. However, news has been rampant about a congressman’s phone being hacked to show that iPhones can be hacked remotely.
According to iDigitalTimes, the Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), made in 1975 to make roaming possible as well as how phone calls are received all over the world, is the major vulnerability that allowed the hackers or third party access to let phone data be collected. The hacker group that exploits this are German hackers, according to 9to5Mac. In the same report, it was said that a German hacker named Karsten Nohl demonstrated how he was able to track a congressman’s location without the use of the phone’s GPS through the cellphone tower triangulation method. He showed that he can keep track of all the phone calls just by using the phone’s number and don’t need to access the iPhone.
Does it affect just the iPhone?
Although it is not sure if this can be done with other phones since it was tested on an iPhone, you can never be too safe. According to CNet, this hack only requires a mobile phone number and can be accessed through mobile networks. This is a scary thought, isn’t it? For the full article click here
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