Protect your vital information (1) Hacking Voicemail

How can someone hack into your voicemail?
With new revelations of phone hacking by the day it is important to know how someone can illegally hack into your voicemail
Although it’s relatively easy to hack a voicemail accounts it is illegal. That however hasn’t stopped numerous journalists and other undesirables from hacking voicemail to come up with the next big scoop or have the edge in a business deal.
So this is how it is normally done. Most mobile phones have a default pin number that customers are given when they buy a new mobile phone. There are also lists of default pins numbers given out on a site on the internet on UK mobiles phones. In any event most operators have the default pin listed on their own home web sites
Armed with the pin an undesirable can then access your voicemail
1. Call the target mobile phone number
2. Waited for voicemail message to begin.
3. Then press the * key and you will be asked for you pin
4. Typed in four-digit pin code.
5. You are in and have hacked a voicemail
There are other tactics such as shoulder surfing or social engineering that can be used. But if you are caught this will certainly lead to a healthy prison sentence.
The 3 golden rules will stop this from happening
1. Change your pin number immediately
2. Never impute your pin number in your phone is you are being observed
3. Protect your pin number as you would do with you cash card at an ATM machine
Remember, protect your vital information