The day when the network is hacked

29 Dec 2011 hackers broke into the GSM network.At the conference Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin Carsten Zero and Luca Melette demonstrated how to use the readily available de-encryption software and mobile phone, you can impersonate the user of another GSM cell phone. They made a few calls, sent text messages and even check voice mail from a person of the other party and identified his location. Their method worked due to the weakness of the GSM encryption and also due to the fact that the key that was originally supposed to be updated each time a new challenge is often used for several different transactions. Identified then the vulnerability does not affect more modern cellular networks of the third and fourth generations.


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