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…
Category: Breaches
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…
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…