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Fighting Mobile Phone Impersonation and Surveillance

29

Dec

2011

Yesterday at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28C3), in Berlin, security researchers along with Karsten Nohl and Luca Melette showcased a number of flaws and solutions in GSM mobile phone networks. Karsten Nohl presenting “Defending Mobile Phones” at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress. Day 1 Defeating GSM encryption is not new. Nohl and Melette detailed […]

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Carrier IQ: Requires Additional Review

15

Dec

2011

Carrier IQ, Inc. has received more public attention in the past 60 days then it has in the previous five years that the company has existed. The software, Carrier IQ (CIQ), is analytics software designed to improve the end user experience by providing information such as dropped calls, service coverage and software crashes to wireless […]

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Social Engineering Example from the East

28

Oct

2011

Recently, a new threat, Android.Fakeneflic, has taken advantage of gaps in the availability of a legitimate video streaming service in order to target mobile users in North America. Here is another example of social engineering at work; however, this time the users that are being targeted are in Eastern Europe. Premium SMS dialers have always […]

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