Researchers Tobias Engel and Karsten Nohl demonstrated serious vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocol for cellular service, putting the privacy of phone calls and users’ location data at risk for ...
A massive security hole in modern telecommunications is exposing billions of mobile phone users around the world to covert theft of their data, bugging of their voice calls and tracking of their ...
SnoopSnitch is a brand new app for Android users developed by the folks over at Security Research Labs. Its purpose is to bring more control in the hands of consumers by collecting and analyzing ...
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 ...
An authentication defect in FreeWifi_Secure exposed Free Mobile subscribers’ IMSIs in cleartext when connecting, enabling tracking scenarios and telecom-level abuses. For years, FreeWifi_Secure ...
For years, experts have warned of vulnerabilities in the network that routes phone calls and cellular service — but those attacks may be more widespread than anyone realized. For more than a year, a ...
PREMIUM TIMES recently published a special report detailing how some state governors are involved in hi-tech mobile phone snooping. According to the report, the governors in question carried out ...
Over the past decade, Serbia has imported more than 20 IMSI catchers, capable of indiscriminately harvesting communications from all mobile phones within a certain area. Experts say their use is not ...
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and California Representative Ted Lieu are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a mobile network vulnerability that they consider to be a systemic digital ...