Spying into the cell phone

Much to the discomfort of mobile users, hackers, who are already wrecking websites and e-mails, are now targetting cell phones as well.

Hackers are intruding mobile phones using hacking tools like spyware and spoofing.

Spyware is a tool which manipulates short message service(SMS) and allows them to be read by others, while spoofing, a relatively new technology which replaces mobile number of sender's message.

Explaining the functions of spyware, a Delhi-based cyber expert said'A hacker sends an SMS to the targetted person. The person opens the message, installing spyware onto the device. The spyware unknown to the victim, takes the SMS and forwards it to the hacker.

Once installed, through the spyware the hacker can monitor the 'compromised' phone call details and can even listen to the calls made or recieved by the user.

Spoofing is relatively a new technology used for changing the identity the source SMS either with text or any desired number.