How safe is your Smartphone?
Are you a victim of smartphone espoonage?
It is a fact that government,the NSA,private organisations and individuals hacks smartphone using malicious backdoors ,phone app. ATM skimming type software and wireless radio wave techonlogy to gain illegal access to the unsuspecting smartphones user.
1. Hackers can take over your smartphone by sending a text message with a photo or sending a video attached.in 2015,over a billion Android phones were affected by this attack known as "Stagefright".According to arstechinica Qualocom security bug,leaves many phones open a attack.The attack which is seen in android version 4.3 and earlier,allows low privilleged apps to access to senstive data thats supposed to be off limit,according to a blog published by security firm,Fire eye,but instead,the data is available by invoking the permission that is already requested by million of million of apps available at Google Play store
2.Uniformately even with Apple strong encryption standards,even in iphone users privacy is still at serious risk and exposure.According to digitaltrend.com the illegal exposure was possible from a security flaw in Signaling System 7(SS7),a little knowledge network that connects all the phones carriers arround the world.its known as the hearty of phone system.The bad news here is that affects every phone on a cellular network whatever it is running in iOS ,Android,or even Window."The theory is that the SS7 flaw is well known within government,but it is a hole that security agencies might not want plugged since it provides access to everyones phone"
3. According to cracked.com,once your phone is hacked,your cell phone tilt "sense"what you are typing on your computer.Your phone accelerometer can pick up information such as password,chats and message frpom just based on distance from your keys to the phone and deduce which letter you type
4. Any Smartphone with near field capablities(NFC) can steal credit card information just by near by them.According to cracked.com "the programe creator,Eddie Lee,demonstarted the hack with his own phone at DefCo 2012,then on the internet as flashing "fuck you,fix this" sign in to credit card companies ".
5. "FREE CHARGING" kiosks may using the same technology as ATM skimming devices steal your private information,and data, or install a programe on your phone to steal it later
6. Ralf PHiliopp Weinmann of the university of Luxembourg discovered that hackers infiltrate your phone through the airwaves themselves,through fake call phone tower,and antivirus software to hack directly into the radio processor
7. Unsecure Wifi in restaurant,hotels and airport allows the hackers to view the everything you do while connecyted.on iPhone, a message will warm the user by saying the server cannot be verified
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