Samsung patches zero-day security flaw used to hack into its customers’ phones

The Galaxy phone maker said it was notified in August that hackers are actively exploiting the security flaw to target ...

ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech

Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone-unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology used to power the Trump administration’s deportation ...
BBC

Adolescence writer on new phone-hacking drama: 'It's a celebration of journalists who called out their own industry'

David Tennant (pictured left, in The Hack), plays the real-life Guardian journalist Nick Davies (right, in 2011) Writer Jack Thorne has praised the "remarkable" journalists who exposed the use of ...
The Atlantic

A Guardian Reporter Confessed to Phone Hacking in 2006

It seems no one is immune to the phone hacking scandal. A Beatle has admitted to being hacked and a CNN anchor is coming under fire for his alleged hacking. Two days ago a Guardian reporter landed in ...
U.S. News & World Report

Former US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty in Phone Company Hacking, Extortion Case

Former US Army Soldier Pleads Guilty in Phone Company Hacking, Extortion Case (Refiles to add dropped word "case" in headline) By AJ Vicens (Reuters) -A former U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty on ...