SIM card hacked, could affect "millions of phones"

22 July, 2013
Research reveals that dated encryption standards and poor coding leaves some SIM cards at risk.

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  • uEB
  • 22 Jul 2013

It would be good if he could say what carriers are affected. I live in Indonesia and have 3 mobiles each with a different carrier, all with SIM cards. I would not be surprised if they are compromised given this country. I would be happy to dump any carrier that has security problems, or is just plain lazy.

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    • summit
    • t7X
    • 22 Jul 2013

    nice work.. y not hack credit cards or atm's instead of a sim card hack,? are we on 1960's? this is so dumb late..

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      • AnonD-167677
      • YMt
      • 22 Jul 2013

      Unless someone gets hold of your simcard, the hack is useless..

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        • asterix5652
        • 0w7
        • 22 Jul 2013

        dont care i have a micro-sim card

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          • ganjaboy_03
          • vxt
          • 22 Jul 2013

          how about old sims like those 5 years old already?
          will they be affected too?

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            • AnonD-117452
            • NUw
            • 22 Jul 2013

            At the moment this sounds more like fear mongering to drum up support for his findings. (Does anyone use the original DES anymore? I long ago stopped using it with GNU/Linux and BSDs just because of how dated it was.) Nothing like finding a security flaw in something which isn't used enough to be consequential anymore.

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              • AnonD-1227
              • utu
              • 22 Jul 2013

              Great work

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                • Anonymous
                • XNt
                • 22 Jul 2013

                Shocking news need to be careful now while getting a new sim

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