Landline hacking the next thing or a forgotten subject?

Recently we have been flooded with media reports of the News of The World’s phone hacking or the Leveson enquiry. On my mobile phone my newsfeed is set to The Telegraph and it’s common for 10 to 15 stories to be related to phone hacking. When the majority of media reports focused heavily mobile voicemail hacking, not much attention was given towards the potential for this to happen to landlines – which leads us to ask question would this be possible?

Landline phones such as BT, Virgin, TalkTalk or Vonage use a similar authentication method to that of mobile phones. Access can be setup externally and accessed using a pin. All one has to do is dial the number, wait for voicemail message, press # or similar and then enter the pin.

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When using a laptop or tablet beware who is watching

Various urban legends exist around competitors winning tenders by sitting behind, and seeing, a company's presentation being formulated on a staff member's laptop. Buy a privacy filter if you travel a lot.

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1st July 2013, http://www.mixcloud.com/MondayMatters/monday-matters-with-jason-mccrossan-1-july-2013/. On from 2.23.