Hackers can take over your mobile phone

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And look through your camera


INSECURITY EXPERTS at IBM, McAfee and Symantec are warning that mobile phones can be possessed by hackers.


Apparently, hackers can even turn the camera on and used to spy on you in the shower.

According to NetworkWorld, the firms are rushing to cash in on the case of a US family who are claiming that their mobile phones have been taken over by hackers.

The hackers have been turning them on, recording conversations and taking snaps with the phone camera. The Kuykendall family's complained they were getting calls in the middle of the night and SMS messages. There were voice messages threatening to kill members of the family.
When police tracked the messages they came from their own phones, even when these were switched off.
Experts at Biggish Blue, McAfee and Symantec agree the hack is possible, but it takes a high degree of sophistication to do it. Quite why anyone would want to turn on the Kuykendall family's phone to have a snoop is beyond most of them.

The INQuirer