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Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. Now we’re learning about an entire ecosystem of companies that anyone could use to silently intercept text messages intended for other mobile users. Security researcher “Lucky225” worked with Vice.com’s Joseph Coxto intercept Cox’s incoming text messages with his permission. Lucky225 showed h...

By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked. For example so-called “SIM Swap” attacks, SS7 attacks, Port-out fraud, etc. All of these attacks however do require some level of sophistication, whether it be high level access to SS7, or account information or social engineering to successfully port out the phone number to a new provider or swap the sim on the existing account. There is however other vulnerabilities that are not particularly well known. For VoIP numbers in particular, which may be assigned to a CLEC or VoIP wholesaler, ...

Growth, job growth in nearly two years. >> state and local governments are still facing massive budget shortfalls and cut a net of 30,000 jobs last month. and today in wisconsin, 1,500 more state workers could be getting pink slips. let's get to austan goolsbee, chairman of the white house council of economic advisers, chief economist for the president's economic recovery advisory board. this is the first jobs report they didn't say but behind the numbers there's some darker cloud. it seems to be a very good report. >> ye of little faith. this is a very solid report. but i think if you look at...