Category Archives: Mobile / Cellular / Bluetooth

Interception of GSM Calls

There is serious vulnerability with A5/1 encryption scheme used in GSM networks. It can lead to interception of GSM calls. This vulnerability has been presented by Karsten Nohl and Chris Paget at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3). Continue reading

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Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

After quite some time of silence regarding my work on Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (WIDS / WIPS), I’m considering continuing that work. In past I have done research, published couple of papers on this topic at conferences and journals and also created concept, basic architecture and design of system and products. This possible “reactivating” of work is particularly pushed by recent interest of companies, organizations and institutions including commercial, government etc, and requirements of many production environments.

This is just brief description. If you are interested in more details or want to consider contribution or investment into this development send me e-mail. Continue reading

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Symbian Hacked?

Gábor Török, senior mobile software engineer who has been involved in S60 platform development since 2000, posted interesting article on his blog. Title of this post is “Symbian Platform Security – hacked?” and it links to another couple blogs and … Continue reading

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Ericsson Interception Management System Manual

This sounds unbelievable but document marked as strictly confidential, Ericsson Interception Management System Manual is available for free download from Internet. I don’t know is that obsolete document or valid, but anyway it is very surprising that you can obtain document … Continue reading

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The Athens Affair: Cell-Network Break-In

In IEEE Spectrum, July 2007 issue, there is interesting article how some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever. It is still unknown who pulled off the most audacious network hack ever, but here’s (IEEE Spectrum: … Continue reading

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