If you are on EE or 3 put a mandatory PIN on your voicemail

[simonrockman]

Do it NOW.

I've found a flaw in their systems which means that it's possible to spoof the Caller Display and listen to other people's voicemail.

Simon

[simonrockman]

I'm a journalist, I wrote it up for the website were I work.

I didn't want to post a link here as that looks like self-promotion.

Simon

[simonrockman]

Paddymcc said:

A journalist figuring out a voicemail hack? Has to be a first?

One over-keen bod in the office did suggest that we keep it to ourselves and just use it to mine stories. The editor and I pointed out that we didn't want to go to prison.

Simon

[simonrockman]

carl_w said:

OP, you write for El Reg?

Yup. Officially on Mondays and Tuesdays. The rest of the week I have an MVNO.

Simon

[simonrockman]

I've had a statement from EE:

“Thanks to Simon and The Register, for bringing this to our attention. Our engineers have worked hard since then to identify the root fault and work on a fix. We can now confirm that we have urgently updated our systems and patched the issues, raised in the article.”

[simonrockman]

Digger said:

simonrockman said:

I'm a journalist, I wrote it up for the website were I work.

. . .

Tsk!

Yup. No subs on PH. The Reg subs are brilliant.


Simon