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Released: July 08, 2011
Phone hacking: a new worry on the user security front
Source: Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post (Free Registration)
As Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp prepares to shut down News of the World, the public is coming to grips with what, for many, is a new term: phone hacking. It's a bit of a misnomer, actually. Hacking implies that a company’s computer systems are breached, often when someone exploits a security problem in a system, as with Apple’s security flaw in its PDF iOS.Read Full Article: Phone hacking: a new worry on the user security front
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