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 ...

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 ...

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Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification.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

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 ...

Encryption Bug in SIM Card Can be Used to Hack Millions of Phones A flaw in the encryption technology used by some SIM cards in mobile devices can be exploited to take control of the device, a German ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

British spy agency GCHQ broke into the Facebook accounts of employees from Gemalto, the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer, to intercept data about mobile phone encryption, according to The ...

Karsten Nohl, an expert cryptographer with Security Research Labs, has found a new way to trick your mobiles into giving in security information like the users location, SMS functions and access to ...