Official: crackers have broken into GPRS billing

In what sounds like a scoop, The Register reports on a GPRS scam called "the over-billing attack."

"Some time today, the GPRS world will reveal that it has a security vulnerability which has seen an undisclosed number of its customers ripped off. They've been trapped into connecting to malicious content servers, by hackers penetrating the billing system".

emily | 4:10 PM | Mobile Payments |
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