Rise Of Mobile Security Threats Emphasizes The Need For More Specialized Security Training

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Millions of mobile phone users are at risk of having their mobile phones hacked.
Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications company, headquartered in London, is reviewing its security systems after the burglary at one of its exchange facilities left thousands of UK users without phone or text-messaging services.

Thieves stole specialist network equipment and IT hardware after breaking down a door at the Vodafone exchange facility in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in the early hours of morning, between 1 am to 2 am. Vodafone say its network control centre and the police were immediately alerted.

The damage caused thousands of Vodafone users in the M4 corridor area unable to make calls or send text messages since the early morning hours.

Vodafone is analyzing its security systems. According to a Vodafone employee, all of Vodafone sites are protected by high level security systems.
In another security information attack incident, a complaint against the Metropolitan Police was filed by Jowell, a Labour party member of Parliament, in London yesterday, seeking information obtained during ...
... police investigations that indicates journalists hacked into her mobile phone.

Jowell, the former Olympics minister, said that while she suspected her phone had been hacked, she was unsure if it was done by journalists, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported at the time. The police in January also said they were re-opening a criminal investigation into phone hacking allegations after receiving new evidence from News of the World.
News of the World newspaper is being sued by actress Sienna Miller, and more than half a dozen of celebrities, over claims that journalists or investigators accessed their voicemail messages for stories.
The phones of British royalties are also not spared from being hacked by reporters, and the UK’s former prime minister demands a police investigation of possible snooping on his mobile messages. The current prime minister’s director of communications resigns, Rupert Murdoch flies in to London for a crisis meeting, and that is just the start
Deep into the age of computer hacking, one or more journalists at Murdoch owned British newspaper the News of the World have been accused of carrying out a remarkably old-fashioned hack, that of accessing or ‘phreaking’ voicemail systems used by celebrities and politicians. Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a subculture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. Phreaking has become closely linked with computer hacking. [
Dozens or even hundreds of public figures could in theory be affected and it hasn’t taken long for it to dawn on people that the practice is likely to be more widespread than a single newspaper in a single country, and could also affect a greater range of people.
Today’s mobile attacks may seem is simple but the possibilities to obtain evidence from the attacks get more complex and is less likely getting easier. An IT professionals’ ability to solve attacks will depend on his IT skills and knowledge.
IT professionals can improve their information security skills by embarking on a highly technical and intensive course that focuses attacking and defending highly secured environments. EC-Council, the world’s leading information security certification body offers a highlyAdvanced Security Training called the Advanced Penetration Testing training (APT). This highly technical and advanced course is extremely hands on and lab intensive that simulate attacking scenarios those found in government agencies and large corporations. In APT, you will be learning how to attack new operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and the latest Linux servers, all patched, and hardened. Both Network and Host-based Intrusion Detection/Preventions systems (IDS/IPS) will be in place as well.
Another information security training that will truly benefit IT professionals is the Digital Mobile Forensics Deep Dive. This is a highly technical security training course that will greatly benefit those who are responsible for designing, securing, implementing and supporting new age smart mobile devices.
About EC-Council
EC-Council is a member-based organization that certifies individuals in various e-business and security skills. It is the owner and developer of the world famous Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) course, Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) program, License Penetration Tester (LPT) program and various other information security training programs offered in over 60 countries around the globe. EC-Council has trained over 80,000 individuals in technical security training and certified more than 30,000 security professionals. EC-Council has launched the Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST), to address the deficiency in the lack of highly technically skilled information security professionals.