Five months after a Radio-Canada/CBC investigation revealed that the country’s major mobile networks are vulnerable to hacking and fraud, documents obtained through Access to Information show that the agency responsible for the security of the federal government’s networks withheld some information from the public at the time.
Using only the cellphone number of MP Matthew Dubé — and with the New Democrat’s consent as part of the Radio-Canada/CBC investigation — cybersecurity experts in Germany proved they were able to intercept his communications and track his movements.
The experts exploited a weakness in a global telecommunications network known as Signalling System No. 7 (SS7). Dubé’s cellphone was connected to the Rogers network, but telephones connected to Bell Canada’s network were also successfully hacked by the experts based
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