Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Hackers have proven just how urgently a gaping flaw in the global telecoms network, affecting what's known as Signalling System ...
Hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress 31c3 is under way in Hamburg, Germany right now where a cluster of SS7 talks have revealed the ease of invasive cell phone surveillance. Three ...
A US Congressman has learned first-hand just how vulnerable cellphones are to eavesdropping and geographic tracking after hackers were able to record his calls and monitor his movements using nothing ...
The same security flaws that cursed the older SS7 standard and were used with 3G, 2G and earlier are prevalent in the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard, ...
Signaling System Number Seven, or SS7, is a widely-used protocol that enables mobile operators’ subscribers to communicate with each other. At the heart of an operator’s network, SS7 contains highly ...
The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around ...
In a recent video, Derek Muller's science YouTube channel "Veritasium" has drawn attention to serious gaps in the mobile phone system that have been gaping for years. Together with the Youtuber Linus ...
The existence of Signaling System 7 (SS7) mobile telephony protocol vulnerabilities is something security researchers warned about in 2016, and it only took a year before the first attacks exploiting ...
In February 2014, the US ambassador to Ukraine suffered an embarrassing leak. A secret conversation between him and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland got posted to YouTube, in which ...
A previously-known security vulnerability in Signaling System 7 (SS7), the protocol that governs how mobile phones exchange calls and text messages worldwide, has been exploited by hackers to ...
Security researchers say the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard is vulnerable to the same types of vulnerabilities as the older SS7 standard used with ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback