The exterior is comprised of a sturdy metal frame that is designed to be less vulnerable to phone-booth-tipping (logical for college campuses).
The company is vulnerable to regional phone giants like Verizon Communications and SBC Communications, which have been allowed by regulators to enter the long-distance business in parts of their home territories.
"The Crime Survey [for England and Wales] data begins to give an insight into the variation in crime by demographic factors and suggests that 14 24 year olds, and particularly women, are most vulnerable to mobile phone theft" (Behavioural Insights Team, 2014b; 10).
In February, Nokia admitted that some phones were vulnerable to attacks in which the phone's address book and calendar could be read, modified and copied, while others could be taken over entirely.
That difference in basic network architecture, some engineers say, also makes cable networks more vulnerable to malicious hackers than phone networks are.
In this weekend's Your Money column, I look at the question of whether United States consumers are vulnerable to the sort of phone shenanigans that tabloid reporters in Britain seem to have been engaged in for some time.
Since then, Cisco seems to have given up, leaving 50 million of its phones vulnerable to spying.
Mr. Rubin said the research was not intended to show that the iPhone was necessarily more vulnerable to hacking than other phones, or that Apple products were less secure than those from other companies.
All Android phones are vulnerable to a huge hack that could allow people to take over phones if people just watch one booby-trapped video.
Otherwise, he said, the phone is vulnerable to attack.
They found that as many as 100 of the phones were vulnerable to hacking over such a connection.
