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UK Ministers' Mobile Phones Could be Cracked in 20 Minutes, Media Says
UK Ministers' Mobile Phones Could be Cracked in 20 Minutes, Media Says
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British ministers are extremely vulnerable to the so-called human hacking and their mobile phones could be cracked in 20 minutes.
2023-01-03T18:06+0000
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The experts suggest that with the vast amount of information available online, the minister's phone could be hacked in 20 minutes. The newspaper specified that until March 2020, anyone could look up a database with personal details of 45,000 civil servants on the Government Communication Service (GCS) website. In some cases, this information included personal mobile phone numbers of heads of government departments. Hackers use social engineering, the other name for human hacking, to lure victims into exposing data or giving access to restricted systems, the report said, adding that there is a possibility that criminals could impersonate senior civil servants and contact ministers via the civil servants’ mobile numbers.
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UK Ministers' Mobile Phones Could be Cracked in 20 Minutes, Media Says
18:06 GMT 03.01.2023 (Updated: 15:25 GMT 28.05.2023) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - British ministers are extremely vulnerable to the so-called human hacking and their mobile phones could be cracked in 20 minutes, a British newspaper reported, citing tech experts.
The experts suggest that with the vast amount of information available online, the minister's phone could be hacked in 20 minutes.
The newspaper specified that until March 2020, anyone could look up a database with personal details of 45,000 civil servants on the Government Communication Service (GCS) website. In some cases, this information included personal mobile phone numbers of heads of government departments.
Hackers use social engineering, the other name for human hacking, to lure victims into exposing data or giving access to restricted systems, the report said, adding that there is a possibility that criminals could impersonate senior civil servants and contact ministers via the civil servants’ mobile numbers.
