Telecoms use the SS7 protocol to route text messages and phone calls, but it has a glaring issue: The user accessing the protocol does not need to be authenticated, which means anyone (government ...

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 ...

Hackers have been known to use all manner of remote access tools to break into mobile phones, often by finding vulnerabilities in an operating system like Android or even in SIM cards. It’s more rare ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two-factor authentication may be the best way of keeping our online accounts safe, but even this system has vulnerabilities. In Germany, a known security flaw in a networking protocol used by ...

Increasingly, cellular carriers and service providers are using IP networks to transport and route Signaling System 7 (SS7) traffic. The SS7 protocol boasts a mechanism for offloading the traditional ...

MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2006--Eicon Networks Corporation ("Eicon"), a global leader in providing world class products and technologies for media processing, today announced new software to ...

It seems that no one is learning anything in the mobile market. Security experts have discovered that the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard is ...

July 15, 2014. GL Communications Inc. has announced the release of its latest enhanced product, Call Capture & Analysis of SS7 Signaling and Traffic. Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of the company said, “SS7 ...