Outdated network tech in Chinese state-owned telecom providers are claimed to be putting global data at risk

A new report by mobile threat mitigation company iVerify claims to show how older and unencrypted network protocols used by some of the most dominant mobile traffic interconnect providers are allowing hacking groups to access mobile data as it flies from country to country. Maybe even yours. To make it even worse, these providers are based in China. To Americans, anything related to China is often viewed as bad, but the fact that there are potentially billions of customers using these services is real. Knowing they’ve been compromised is terrifying to many network security professionals. I take any reports from…