DJofSD
07-23-2013, 09:02 AM
http://threatpost.com/sim-card-vulnerability-could-affect-hundreds-of-millions-of-cell-phones/101430
As many as 750 million mobile phones could be vulnerable to an encryption flaw on certain types of SIM cards, a German cryptographer and researcher warned over the weekend.
Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin, unveiled preliminary research on his blog behind the flaw in advance of a presentation he plans to give at the annual Black Hat security conference next week in Las Vegas.
If and when you get a new SIM in the mail from you cell phone network provider, this may very well be the reason behind it.
Note the mention in the article about a need to update JAVA to a more secured version.
As many as 750 million mobile phones could be vulnerable to an encryption flaw on certain types of SIM cards, a German cryptographer and researcher warned over the weekend.
Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin, unveiled preliminary research on his blog behind the flaw in advance of a presentation he plans to give at the annual Black Hat security conference next week in Las Vegas.
If and when you get a new SIM in the mail from you cell phone network provider, this may very well be the reason behind it.
Note the mention in the article about a need to update JAVA to a more secured version.