To compromise the security of a mobile, hackers must know exactly how to run a smartphone around their programming and hardware, as exploiting a security flaw in its SS7 protocol, these violators mobile systems can access our personal information .
A team of US and German hackers revealed how to hack any version and model of Smartphone. Just knowing the phone number of the victim, a hacker can get any kind of mobile information such as location, calls and messages, thus violating any privacy.
Karsten Nohl, a specialist of German origin, not revealed all the secrets, but if he showed in a TV show called 60 minutes, how could a political hack through the SS7 protocol.
Nohl and his team were able to access this protocol after obtaining legal permission from their operators, and thus to test defense systems and security discovering that hackers had already achieved income through smartphone technology previously knowing the phone number the victims.
Currently, there are only two kinds of companies and people: those who have been hacked and are aware of it and who were violated and unknown "said John Hering, in charge of security in computers and Director of the company LookOut.