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CYBER

How Big Telcos Just Made Your Phone Easier To Hack

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Researchers learned that telecom companies are implementing the successor to SMS in vulnerable ways, making everyone’s text messages unsafe.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:11.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

Eagle one, the package is being delivered.

0:24.6

You know, when you use your cell phone, save being hacked or targeted by a nation state,

0:29.6

you'd like to think that, generally, your telco is making it at least a little difficult for an attacker to target your phone data.

0:36.6

Well, what if I told you that an industry standard for some phone carriers

0:41.3

is making it easier to do things like spoofing your phone number or intercepting your text messages?

0:47.3

On this week's cyber, we've got Vice Reporter Joseph Cox to tell us about the problem

0:52.3

with rich communication services, RCS, Standard.

0:57.3

I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

1:04.2

So Joseph, another one of your sketchy little nuggets for us to discuss.

1:09.3

I don't know if I'd call it that.

1:11.6

Yeah, one of my articles about people doing sketchy stuff.

1:16.6

I love how I...

1:17.6

Sketchy nugget.

1:18.6

Yeah, I love how I completely diminished your award-winning career.

1:23.6

Yeah, just straight to it. Let's call it that from now.

1:27.9

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, okay, so let's, I mean, this is a great one because I think it's something

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