How Does a Criminal Hack a Cell Phone?

Most people would be truly alarmed if they understood how easily criminals can hack into their cell phones and retrieve personal and potentially damaging information.  Criminals today have devices that will let them hack into your cell phone by just dialing the number.  In fact, with this technology, they can also listen to your calls, read your emails, text messages, access your photos and any other information you store on your phone. They can even retrieve your  password to your online bank account.  For this very reason people need to learn about security for mobile phones.

What makes this situation more frightening is the fact that phone hacking instructions can be found on the internet for any dishonest person to access.  Therefore, it is crucial for people to to set up security for mobile phones.  In this past year alone, more than a billion cell phones have been hacked due to the fact that they were unprotected, according to experts.  Most cell phone owners weren’t even aware they could install security for mobile phones.

Today, cell phones have become so smart - they are more like computers than phones.  This has left them wide open to hackers who now have good reason to want to hack unprotected cell phones.  Before a person is even aware their phone has been hacked, the criminal has access to all their private information. This is why security for cell phones is so important for users.

Another common hacking method, also known as “the man in the middle”, allows a criminal to hack into a mobile phone’s operating system and then reroutes all the data to a third party who is just sitting there waiting to utilize stolen information.

Some cell phone hackers can even have a device perform this when a mobile phone is turned off, which makes all mobile phones vulnerable for attack.

You can avoid this from happening to your phone. Regardless of whether you own an iPhone, Android, Blackberry or other wireless device, you can protect your phone with a variety of mobile security products.

Contact us or call 240-880-4400 to find out more information on our security for mobile phones.

KoolSpan, Inc. is a leader in mobile security. We provide secure connectivity solutions for network devices.

About Glenn Schoonover

Glenn Schoonover, CISSP, Senior Security Engineer at KoolSpan. With over 15 years of cyber-security expertise he has the distinction of being the first Chief of Network Security at the Pentagon establishing a 24/7 Computer Emergency Operations Center and coordinating activities across all of the DoD. Previously he was an Executive Director with Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector and a senior technical architect at Microsoft supporting Federal customers. Glenn is a 1986 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and is a combat veteran of Operations Just Cause and Desert Storm. He has been awarded the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, and numerous other commendations. Find me on Google+

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