Your GPS Location and Calls Can be Spied Using Network Vulnerability
Yes, you heard it right. It's the dirty truth that’s featuring what is being called the largest privacy breach ever.
Billions of cell phone users are at risk of a vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that allows hackers and spies agencies to track locations and intercept all voice calls from anywhere in the world.
This is something we already know from the last year's Snowden leaks
that explained the National Security Agency (NSA) capabilities to gather nearly 5 Billion records a day on mobile phone locations around the world.
But, it's worse than we have thought.
The famous Australian TV programme "60 Minutes" demonstrated that it is possible for anyone to track cell phone location and intercept calls and text messages.
This time, not due to a security vulnerability in the phone's operating
system, but due to a serious flaw in the very system our cell phones use
to communicate with each other around the world – The global signaling system, called SS7.
