Most cellphone voice mail is vulnerable to hackers [telecom]

Most cellphone voice mail is vulnerable to hackers Online services guide the way

By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff / July 13, 2011

Breaking into someone's voice mailbox - in the style of the hackers at the British tabloid News of the World - can be as easy in the United States as it is on the other side of the Atlantic.

It is done using a readily available online service known as "caller ID spoofing,'' which can make a call appear to be coming from any phone number. Hackers can use it to access someone else's voice mail messages by fooling the system into thinking the call is coming from the owner's cellphone.

If the mailbox is not protected by a password, as is often the case, the attacker can hear and even delete messages in the target's voice mailbox.

There are numerous spoofing services in the United States; all you need to do is Google them. Although these services are used by hackers to commit crimes, they're also used legitimately by, for example, battered women who do not want their calls traced, or law enforcement agents operating undercover.

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