Two security researchers on Wednesday will demonstrate methods for intercepting and decoding calls and data transmitted over the popular GSM mobile network technology. Security researchers Karsten ...

The unveiling of a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) encryption codebook compiled by a German security researcher and his team of collaborators lowers the bar significantly for the amount ...

It has been long argued that the A5/1 encryption standard used to secure GSM traffic from eavesdropping is, in fact, insecure, and California based security firm H4RDW4RE is pioneering an effort to ...

The release of a GSM codebook is a warning that cell phones are an easy and dangerous security gap without encryption. Recent code-cracking research has made it easy, fast and cheap for unauthorized ...

This is the standard encryption that was introduced with RCS Universal Profile 3.0 almost a year ago. It was nearly a year ...

Kevin J. O’Brien divulges the news: A German computer engineer … has deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s … mobile phone calls. … Karsten Nohl, aimed to ...

update A security expert is calling for the creation of a mobile app to alert users when their communications security has been compromised. Craig Heath, chief security technologist at the Symbian ...

Apple may be working on implementing encryption for RCS messages. References to this development were spotted in the iOS 26.3 ...

Israeli scientists have discovered a flaw in the encryption used in GSM cellphones that makes it possible (though not particularly easy) to electronically eavesdrop on calls. Besides knowing how to ...

An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux. In a paper released Tuesday ...