Nicholas Watt and Afua Hirsch report: Scotland Yard and News International were tonight facing further parliamentary pressure over the News of the World phone hacking scandal as a Commons committee announced a fresh inquiry into the affair. As police confirmed that Andy Coulson would be questioned following new allegations in the New York Times suggesting he knew about…
Category: Breaches
UK phone hacking scandal: Theresa May comes under fire in parliament
Nicholas Watt reports: British democracy risks becoming a “laughing stock” around the world unless allegations about phone hacking on behalf of the News of the World are fully investigated, a former Labour minister warned today. Tom Watson, a member of the Commons culture select committee, issued a point-by-point rebuttal of arguments by ministers and News…
UK: Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond
Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker, and Graham Bowley report: In November 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories that began appearing about Prince William…
Orange Spain disclosing user phone number
From the Certificate Error blog: I’m currently assessing how mobile operators modify and enrich HTTP headers. I´ve already analyzed the main operators in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK with very interesting results I´ll publish soon. […] During the assessment I found that Orange Spain is adding the user MSISDN in any HTTP request sent…