{"id":23865,"date":"2018-10-29T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/29\/listen-aki-anastasiou-speaks-to-faizel-patel-about-whether-smartphones-can-be-hacked\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:51:30","slug":"listen-aki-anastasiou-speaks-to-faizel-patel-about-whether-smartphones-can-be-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/listen-aki-anastasiou-speaks-to-faizel-patel-about-whether-smartphones-can-be-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"[LISTEN] Aki Anastasiou Speaks to Faizel Patel About Whether Smartphones Can Be Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 29-10-2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is it possible to hack a mobile smartphone?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to tech expert Aki Anastasiou the risk of mobile phones being compromised by hackers is a real possibility which can have serious and embarrassing consequences for users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes after Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba tweeted that a video containing material of a sexual nature, meant only for him and his wife was stolen when his phone was hacked 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anastasiou says hackers use different way of hacking into phones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe reality is phones are very secure, unless you\u2019re using every level of authentication. Even then you are vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anastasiou says there are various ways of users protecting themselves as \u201chack proof\u201d as possible, but the vulnerabilities are always going to exist for people wanting to steal personal information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Listen to the interview with\u00a0Aki Anastasiou<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/521549133&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 29-10-2018 \u00a0 Is it possible to hack a mobile smartphone? According to tech expert Aki Anastasiou the risk of mobile phones being compromised by hackers is a real possibility which can have serious and embarrassing consequences for users. This comes after Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba tweeted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6cV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 11:20:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}