FBI Warns iPhone and Android Users To Stop Texting Each Other

Hackers are getting active again, and this time they’re in our text messages. Three weeks ago, the FBI revealed hackers working with China had “infiltrated the U.S. telecom infrastructure.” U.S. officials are currently working to evict them from the networks of some telecom and internet firms, but haven’t had any luck.

Now they are urging iPhone and Android users to stop texting each other because the messages are not encrypted. Newsweek reports that, “SMS messaging first emerged in the early 1990s, when there were far fewer concerns surrounding text message security. At this point, altering SMS to include end-to-end encryption would likely be impractical or impossible. However, modern text messages often do not use SMS and are transmitted using other systems, such as Apple’s iMessage and Google Messages. Text messages between iPhone users and between Android users do include end-to-end encryption by default. However, messages transmitted between the two systems are not encrypted and could be vulnerable.”

Text messaging between iPhone to iPhone and Android to Android is still considered safe.

FBI Warns iPhone and Android Users To Stop Texting Each Other  was originally published on thebeatdfw.com