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Researchers figure out how to crack GSM phone security

2008-02-21 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Two researchers claim they have figured out how to listen to calls sent over GSM cellular networks, cracking security that was previously thought to be unassailable
 
Tags: gsm cellular networks, security, researchers claim, calls, unassailable, previously
 
 
 
 
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GSM phone calls cracked for $1,000 a time

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2bd14 in Network World on Security
 
Two enterprising researchers claim to have figured out a way to eavesdrop on calls made using GSM mobile phones, cracking open its much-vaunted encryption
 
Tags: gsm mobile phones, calls, researchers claim, eavesdrop, encryption
 
 
 
 
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Can you hear me now? Yes, yes I can. (GSM hacked for cheap)

2008-02-22 18:00:08 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The 64-bit encryption method used by GSM networks (AT&T/TMobile/etc), known as A5/1 has been theoretically crackable for 10 years now, but it was very expensive to do so. At Black Hat D.C. 2008 however, a $1,000 solution was unveiled that claims to crack it in 30 minutes, or for $100,000 it can be cracked in 30 seconds
 
Tags: 64-bit encryption method, gsm networks, black hat, crackable, claims, minutes, a51, expensive, solution
 
 
 
 
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Hacking cellular phone conversations

2008-02-21 10:42:26 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Researchers have known for several years that wireless telephone converstations over GSM networks are theoretically subject to eavesdropping. This is due to a weakness in GSM networks (used by companies like AT&T and T-Mobile) that allows cracking GSM encryption. However, actually cracking GSM-based communications for fun and profit was not...
 
Tags: gsm networks, wireless telephone converstations, gsm encryption, practical, t-mobile, due, weakness, att, subject
 
 
 
 
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European Commission Moves Forward on In-Flight Mobile Plan

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2008-04-07 12:21:42 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...GSM 1800), which is estimated to cover phones used by 90 percent of European passengers--or is that 90 percent of travelers on European flights? Hard to know The picocells must not simply accept connections for 1800 MHz bands, but also prevent phones using 460 MHz, 900 MHz, and 2100 MHz from communicating with ground stations, which is a...
 
Tags: mhz, mhz band, mhz frequencies, mhz bands, pan-european telecom rules, rules, in-flight service, service, ground stations
 
 
 
 
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Cryptanalysis of A5/1

2008-02-22 06:31:45 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...GSM cell phone encryption algorithm, A5/1. In some ways, this isn't real news; we've seen A5/1 cryptanalysis papers as far back as ten years ago What's new about this attack is: 1) it's completely passive, 2) its total hardware cost is around $1,000, and 3) the total time to break the key is about 30 minutes. That's impressive The...
 
Tags: cryptanalysis, a51 cryptanalysis papers, a51, attacks, time, total time, total hardware cost, faster attacks, abandon algorithms
 
 
 
 
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Researchers: GSM mobile security on the ropes

2008-03-28 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The security of the world's most widely used standards for transmitting mobile phone calls is dangerously flawed, two researchers warned at the Black Hat conference in Amsterdam
 
Tags: black hat conference, mobile phone calls, researchers, security, amsterdam, dangerously, widely, world, standards
 
 
 
 
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700 MHz Winners Talk: Google, AT&T, Verizon

2008-04-04 11:45:52 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...GSM standard, in the 700 MHz band. AT&T says their network will come online starting in 2012; Verizon, 2010 Google posted on their own blog and told the New York Times that they were happy enough losing, even though they bid to win...sort of. They raised their own bids a few times to keep interest from other players, but were relieved when...
 
Tags: verizon, mhz spectrum auction, mhz spectrum, verizon wireless, google, auction, ensure verizon lives, spectrum, att
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...GSM networking and WiMax's deployment. The networks will become faster and cheaper and less restrictive For a good sense of what people are still reading on Wi-Fi Networking News, here are the titles of the top 10 articles since I switched to Google Analytics in Sept. 2006 Change Your Linksys WRT54G Admin Password Right Now WPA Cracking Proof...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #78: Cisco IP phone vulnerabilties, WiFi handset insecurity, IETF security-related news, VoIP security news, listener comments and more

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2008-04-29 13:56:50 by HASH0x8b2fcac in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast