The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around ...

Hackers have exploited long-known vulnerabilities in the SS7 networking protocol to drain customer bank accounts, despite years of warnings about the security holes. Signaling System No.7 (SS7), as ...

Researchers Tobias Engel and Karsten Nohl demonstrated serious vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocol for cellular service, putting the privacy of phone calls and users’ location data at risk for ...

Signaling System Number Seven, or SS7, is a widely-used protocol that enables mobile operators’ subscribers to communicate with each other. At the heart of an operator’s network, SS7 contains highly ...

Security flaws in a globally used telecoms protocol have been exploited to steal money from targets' bank accounts. Cybercriminals have been exploiting flaws in Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), also ...

AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile security, today launched SS7 Protection – a new product that secures mobile operator core networks against privacy and fraud attacks exploiting loopholes in ...

It seems that no one is learning anything in the mobile market. Security experts have discovered that the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard is ...