Bad news for mobile users: – SIM giant was hacked by spies – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): American and British spies have stolen krypteringsnøkler from the largest SIM kortprodusenten in the world, reports The Intercept.

Informasjonen strains of nettstedet from documents they have received a grant from the kjente NSA varsleren Edward Snowden.

– Installerte spy program

Datainnbruddet must be a joint Operasjon utført av people from the US National Security Agency and the British motparten, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

It is the nederlandbaserte firm Gemalto to turn itself ha utsatt for hacking. According to The Intercept produserer the annual two billion SIM cards and has ironically motto ‘Security to be Free “.

The hackers must have obtained seg approach to Gemaltos internal netværk as å install a spy program . They must Secondly it ha stolen krypteringsnøkler who bleed for river secrecy mobilkommunikasjon worldwide.

This could overvåke both light and data from a variety regard users uten å søke on the permission from telecom operators, governments of or politimyndigheter in countries affected brukerne coming from.

85 countries

Opplysningene strains according to The Intercept from a secret GCHQ document from 2010. 450 mobilnettverk in minst 85 country can be affected av theft.

Gemalto must not have ant noe on spionasjen but they reach satt in time a scrutiny.

– I am upset and very worried that this has hendt. The most important for meg is y understand exactly how the diaper made candy that we can do everything we can stream unngå it skjer again, says Vice-President Paul Beverly in Gemalto The Intercept.

– Poor nytt

Datasikkerhetseksperter reacts with forferdelse on nyheten on Gemalto-innbruddet.

– When you have nøklene, it lett å decrypt traffic. Nyheten on nøkkeltyveriet will send sjokkbølger gjennom whole sikkerhetsmiljøet, says Christopher Soghoian of the American Civil Liberties Union.

– This is bad prosjekt telefonsikkerheten. Veldig bad nytt, says kryptografisekspert Matthew Green at Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute to nettstedet.