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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computer security researchers say that the GSM phones used by the majority of the world’s mobile-phone users can be listened in on with just a few thousand dollars worth of hardware and some free open ...

Further enhancing the 6113 base station tester for GSM base stations, the company's latest option offers A5/3 encryption capabilities. Support for the latest A5/3 GSM encryption algorithm complements ...

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 ...

Computer security researchers say that the GSM phones used by the majority of the world’s mobile-phone users can be listened in on with just a few thousand dollars worth of hardware and some free open ...