1. Your phone number is all a hacker needs to read texts, listen to calls and track you
- Weaknesses within mobile phone network interconnection system allows criminals or governments to remotely snoop on anyone with a phone
- Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone calls and texts is their phone number.
- The hack, first demonstrated by German security researcher Karsten Nohl in 2014 at a hacker convention in Hamburg, has been shown to still be active by Nohl over a year later for CBS’s 60 Minutes.
- The hack uses the network interchange service called Signalling System No. 7(SS7), also known as C7 in the UK or CCSS7 in the US, which acts as a broker between mobile phone networks. When calls or text messages are made across networks SS7 handles details such as number translation, SMS transfer, billing and other back-end duties that connect one network or caller to another.
- Retail giant makes shows such as Transparent and The Man in the High Castle available via monthly fee as well as annual payment
- Amazon is to offer video streaming of exclusive shows such as Transparent and The Man in the High Castle as a standalone service in the US for the first time as it tries to make up ground on Netflix.
- The online retailer had previously offered Prime Video in the US as part of its Prime package, which also includes next day shipping and other perks, for $99 (£70) a year. It has quietly offered a monthly version for £5.99 in the UK, but will begin promoting the option more strongly, according to reports.
- US users will now be able to pay $8.99 a month for Amazon’s video, and get Prime as a monthly option for $10.99.
- The move is a clear attempt to catch up with Netflix, which has led the way in video streaming by offering a cut-price monthly service while also spending big on original content such as House of Cards, Better Call Saul and Marvel superhero spinoff series including Daredevil and Jessica Jones.
- It comes as Netflix begins moving longer-term subscribers over to new, more expensive packages, having given early adopters a price freeze when it introduced a new pricing structure last year.
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