So simple chopped your sim card in two minutes - Metro

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– Published: on July 22

A security flaw in the sim card allows hackers to easily take control of your mobile. The weakness may be 56-digit card security code is revealed, say German security expert Karsten Nohl to the New York Times.

Using the code, he managed to infect the mobile with a virus just by sending sms. After that it was easy to listen in on conversations and make purchases in mobile payment systems. The whole process took just two minutes on a standard PC.
– We can spy on you. We know the encryption for your calls. We can read your text. In addition to espionage, we can steal data from the SIM card, your mobile identity, and make purchases on your account, says Karsten Nohl told the newspaper.

He previously known, and in 2009 he released a program that calculates the encryption of the call on the GSM network. It made the whole industry to implement more secure system. The lack he now discovered is coupled to an encryption standard by 1970. He has tested the method on approximately 1,000 SIM cards in Europe and the U.S. for two years. Around a quarter of the cards, which belonged to him and his research group, went to pick.

Over the past ten years, many operators started to use a more secure encryption, but the old version still exists on millions of SIM cards. Karsten Nohl estimates that the number of vulnerable phones is 750 million.

results of the study have been handed over to the GSM Association, which in turn sent the information to the operators and SIM card manufacturers worldwide.
– We have had the opportunity to see the importance of this and advise the operators and manufacturers that may be affected, said the organization’s spokeswoman, Claire Cranton, the New York Times.

During a conference in Las Vegas on July 31 to Karsten Nohl report the study in detail.

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