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cyber spies are going after SIM cards I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it has been reported that American and British government's hacked into the computers of a sim card supplier to steal encryption keys to billions of SIM cards essentially living these government's spy on phone conversations and data transfers at will without a warrant gemalto the company that supplies those sim cards investigated the hacking claims and says there was no major theft of its encryption keys and customer data however it admitted that it was the victim of a sophisticated hack in 2010 and 2011 and that was likely carried out by the National Security Agency and UK spy agency GCHQ gemalto said that in that hack it's possible some encryption keys for older 2g networks were compromised this accusation all started from documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reports say the NSA worked with the GCHQ to hack gemalto which provides mobile sim cards to major telecom companies around the world like vodafone verizon and china mobile the NSA and gchq have not commented it's hard not to be left wondering who to believe or even what companies you can trust with security there are smartphone apps that can give you an extra layer of encryption if you're concerned about eavesdropping to make an encrypted phone call use signal on iOS and the app red phone on Android both are created by the company whisper systems also silent circle makes another suite of encryption apps if the world of cyber espionage hasn't completely turned you away from using smart phones all together well maybe you'll be interested in a brand new cheap smartphone from Motorola the updated moto e is only a hundred and fifty dollars that's without a contract full price it's smaller than today's monster phones but you can customize it with color bands that you snap around the edge it comes with the latest version of google's operating system android lollipop and it runs on 4g LTE networks it's also on sale in the UK and it's going to be coming to more than 50 countries if you want a smartphone with more old-school style verizon is selling the blackberry classic $100 it comes with a keyboard and a fifty-dollar rebate so you basically get it for 50 bucks it hits verizon's website on thursday and arrives in stores next week and speaking of old school netflix is expanding its kids programming lineup with a reboot of Inspector Gadget the new version aired on TV in Europe but it's going to come to the u.s. in march on the streaming service and that's not the only returning tuned cartoon network is making more power puff girls and disney just announced its rebooting ducktales to air on disney XD in 2017 more ducktales woo hoo that should tech news update there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey