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60 Minutes Shows How Network Flaw Makes Any Smartphone Easy Prey

2016-04-19 19:24:11| TechNewsWorld

An international team of cybersecurity experts hacked into an iPhone loaned to a U.S. congressman who sits on a key technology committee, in a 60 Minutes demonstration of how easy it is for a criminal to spy on callers by exploiting an international mobile phone network vulnerability. The hackers were able to listen in on a call by Rep. Ted Lieu just by getting the actual phone number he was using.

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