The Gemalto encryption key "heist" may be one of the biggest breaches of corporate data conducted by an intelligence agency to date. The attack, first reported by The Intercept, showed how the UK and ...

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Las Vegas – In the last Black Hat briefing of the day Wednesday, German security researcher Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs demonstrated a SIM card attack that exploited sloppy encryption and ...

In a bombshell report published on Thursday, Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley of The Intercept detail how the NSA and British Intelligence operatives managed to steal encryption keys from Gemalto, a ...

Last week, The Intercept reported that the NSA had been able to capture and store the encryption keys that protect SIM cards. Now, Gemalto—the largest SIM card manufacturer on the planet—has responded ...

Cyber criminals are always on the hunt for ways to disrupt your digital life, and with mobile devices playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day operations, you can bet they'll be paying ...

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...

U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have reportedly hacked into the computer network of giant SIM card maker Gemalto and taken smartphone encryption keys potentially used by customers of hundreds of ...

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Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there's still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM ...

A security researcher in Germany claims to have discovered an encryption flaw in SIM cards that allow a user's cell phone to be hacked in mere minutes, The New York Times reported. Mobile security ...

American spies with the NSA and British secret agents from the GCHQ were able to successfully infiltrate the world's largest SIM card maker and steal its encryption keys according to a new report from ...