Researchers Discover Flaws That Allow Eavesdropping Of Cell Calls

Signalling System 7 or SS7 has long known to be vulnerable to hackers.  SS7 is the control system protocol that telephone companies use to route and transfer calls between companies and, in the cellular world, between towers. Since SS7 was designed in the early 1980s, no one was terribly concerned about security.  Hackers – or […]