Not content with being able to break into email in-boxes and hijack social networking profiles, hackers have just found a new weapon to add to their arsenal - eavesdropping on mobile phone calls.
Billions of mobile phone users around the world are at risk of having their calls intercepted and recorded after hackers broke the encryption used to protect 80 per cent of the world's mobiles.
People regularly trading in confidential information, such as Government officials and executives, would be the most likely eavesdropping targets
A German computer engineer, Karsten Nohl, told a hacker conference in Berlin that he and his team decoded the Global System for Mobile Communication encryption algorithm to draw attention to gaping security holes in the technology and drive mobile operators to patch them.
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