SMS is Broken and Hackers can Read Text Messages. Never use Regular Texting for ePHI.
June 23, 2016
Security firm Positive Technologies has published a report (see their overview of attack on one time passwords and PDF of the SS7 security problems) that explains how attackers can easily attack the protocols underlying the mobile text messaging networks (i.e. the Signaling System 7 or “SS7” protocol). In their report, they indicate how this makes it easy to […]