FTC, Cell Companies, Consumers Fighting More Text Spam

Once the scourge of e-mail providers and the Postal Service, spammers have infiltrated the last refuge of spam-free communication: cellphones. In the United States, consumers received roughly 4.5 billion spam texts last year, more than double the 2.2 billion received in 2009, according to Ferris Research, a market research firm…

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Your Cell Phone is Telling Your Secrets

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Cell networks vulnerable

Vulnerability in a common wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of cellphones, an expert warns. The GSM network technology, used by billions of people in about 80% of the global cellphone market, could be hacked to make calls or send texts to expensive, premium phone and messaging…

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