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SIM Card Flaw Could Wreak Havoc on Millions of Phones

2013-07-23 00:07:22| TechNewsWorld

About 25 percent of mobile phones currently in use may be vulnerable because they rely on 1970s-era Data Encryption Standard security, according to Security Research Labs. Out of 1,000 SIM cards it tested over two years, 250 used DES instead of more advanced approaches such as triple DES or the Advanced Encryption Standard, the lab said. About 7 billion SIM cards are used worldwide.

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