Gemalto found itself at the center of a new hacking scandal this week ... AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless all use Gemalto SIM cards in their mobile devices, as do 450 other mobile ...

Key to the hack is Java Card, a general purpose programming ... including carriers like AT&T and Verizon who use robust encryption standards. Are SIM cards with these 3DES standards vulnerable?

Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, all guilty,” she declares. She adds, “Workers are able to bypass these security prompts and give these people the SIM cards. My neighbor is out $4,000. That might not ...

Not just your average hacking shenanigans – if your phone ... safer encryption standards. “Verizon SIM cards are not vulnerable to this potential attack because of the way they are designed ...

The attack, first reported by The Intercept, showed how the UK and US intelligence communities stole encryption keys to millions of SIM cards ... but the Gemalto hack is about as clear as it ...

Gemalto works with a number of banks around the world, including Redeban Multicolor, Colombia's largest financial network, that deploy mobile apps in its SIM cards. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all said ...

Tucked into that story was a phrase I hadn't heard before, a type of hack I'd had to look up: SIM ... ID card will suffice. All the hacker needed was a knowledge of the glaring loophole in ...

Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. "We determined that between ...