80 Percent of All Phones Vulnerable to Hijack Scams

Read this and rethink how much you like your smartphone then!

Sure, if you don't care; you don't care, but it is the point that counts, your personal text's and any other personal info you put across your phone is potentially being stolen!

Foxnews
Vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones And instruct them to send text messages or make calls, according to an expert on mobile phone security.
They could use the vulnerability in the GSM network technology, which is used by billions of people in about 80 percent of the global mobile market, to make calls or send texts to expensive, premium phone and messaging services in scams, said Karsten Nohl, head of Germany's Security Research Labs.

Similar attacks against a small number of smartphones have been done before, but the new attack could expose any cellphone using GSM technology.
"We can do it to hundreds of thousands of phones in a short timeframe," Nohl told Reuters in advance of a presentation at a hacking convention in Berlin on Tuesday.

Sprint disables Carrier IQ software on its handsets

At least Sprint manned up a bit and said that , yes they are using carrier IQ throughout their service.
Unlike others.
All people with smartphones should be pissed off about the whole Carrier IQ fiasco, the level that this was implemented at is unprecedented and extremely intrusive into peoples lives and privacy.

Each phone carrier should be sued for large sums of cash for knowingly doing what is essentially illegal for a hacker to do, and the money collected should be paid directly to the phone owners, NOT THE GOVERNMENT.

Computerworld
Sprint, the biggest user of Carrier IQ's software, said Friday it has disabled use of the tool in response to customer concerns.

The wireless carrier is no longer collecting data using the tool and is evaluating its options regarding the software going forward, the company said in an emailed statement.

"We have weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected," the statement said. "At Sprint, we work hard to earn the trust of our customers and believe this course of action is in the best interest of our business and customers."

On Thursday, Sprint disclosed that it had installed Carrier IQ's controversial software on 26 million of its handsets. In a letter to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Thursday, Sprint said it had been using Carrier IQ's software since 2006. The company said it had been using the software only to collect network- and device-related information for quality-of-service-related purposes.

Franken had earlier sent a letter to Sprint, AT&T and several other companies demanding details on their use of Carrier IQ's software. Franken's letter was prompted by security researcher Trevor Eckhart's disclosure last month that Carrier IQ's software could be used to conduct highly intrusive tracking of mobile phone users.