Text Messaging for Two Factor Authentication is Under Attack We have talked on occasion about a basically theoretical attack against text messages as the second factor for authentication. It is likely that the feds know more than they are telling us about that since the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deprecated the use […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SC Magazine is reporting that a flaw signaling System 7, the telephone industry standard for setting up, managing and tearing down phone calls allows anyone to listen in on cell phone calls, read texts and locate a user. Two separate researchers have identified the flaw and are going to demonstrate it at a hackers conference […]
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