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…
Category: Breaches
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…
My: Probe into leak of text messages, phone calls
The alleged leak of confidential text messages and telephone conversations of a woman is now being probed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The MCMC is checking to ascertain if the telecommunication company had committed any offence. The directive to investigate came from Information, Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim…
Groups ask attorney general to discard ‘Utah list’
Lee Davidson reports: Several civil rights groups are asking Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff not to use a now-infamous list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants to pursue criminal charges against them. More than 100 groups made a similar request last month to federal immigration officials. Now, many of them are asking the same of Shurtleff…