Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of choice

Re:Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of ch... by henningpeters on Friday December 11, 2015 @10:24AM (#10717571)

> Hacking someone’s phone number is almost impossible to do, as someone would need to steal the physical SIM card or clone it at least. An almost impossible venture for the majority of fraudsters.

Wiretapping/redirecting SMS is actually surprisingly easy and doesn't require stealing/cloning SIM cards. Not sure how it compares to wiretapping unencrypted IP networks, but based on a demo I saw today I would guess it's easier.

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Re:Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of ch... by vorian on Friday December 11, 2015 @10:37AM (#10717670)

You you could also just trick the phone company into forwarding the voicemail to another phone number.

http://www.securityweek.com/exclusive-google-two-factor-auth...

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Re:Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of ch... by lgomezma on Friday December 11, 2015 @10:34AM (#10717647)

Any link with more info to that demo? It sounds interesting.

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Re:Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of ch... by henningpeters on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:19PM (#10718811)

Demo was in RL, hence no link. Search for SS7/MSC attacks for more info.

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Re:Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of ch... by lgomezma on Monday December 14, 2015 @10:58AM (#10731726)

Thanks, I will take a look, it seems quite interesting...

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