The GSM technology used by the majority of the world’s mobile phones will get some scrutiny at this week’s Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn’t pretty. On Friday, an open source group released software that cracks the A5/1 encryption algorithm used by some GSM networks. Called Kraken, [...]

The US National telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released two reports from its recent on-site prison cellular jamming trials at the Cumberland, Md. federal correctional facility in February. TR-10-466 Emission Measurments of a Cellular and PCS jammer at a Prison Facility – http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/contrabandcellphones/NTIAPrisoncelljammerreport_TR_10_466.pdf 10-468 Inital Assessment of the potential impact from a jamming transmitter [...]

The government communications watchdog has called for public opinion on whether Australia should introduce mobile phone jamming in prisons. The call comes ahead of a proposed NSW State Government trial of mobile phone jammers in Lithgow gaol which if successful could make Australia one of about 10 countries to legalise the practice. Australian and New [...]

If you are using “123456″ as your password it is past time to stop. Same if you are using the always popular “Password” to protect your account. Those easy-to-hack passwords were the top and fourth most-popular from among 32 million hacked from RockYou.com, a new study finds……. Read the complete article at PCWorld Tech Insider [...]

Following a recent crack of the simpler A5/1 standard, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science say they have cracked the A5/3 security cipher (nicknamed Kasumi) by using what’s known as a “sandwich” attack. The group accomplished its goal by creating a distinguishing trait for the key and using just four related keys to determine [...]

­Indian operators will be blocking several million mobile phones from December 1 as a government ban on handsets without a valid IMEI comes into effect. Estimates have suggested that as many as 25 million handsets were being used without an IMEI number. This has decreased over the past few months with the operators offering a [...]

Security researchers have released a paper detailing successful man-in-the-middle attacks against several smartphones. They tested the Nokia N95, HTC Tilt, Android G1 and iPhone 3GS devices over unsecured Wi-Fi networks. ….. read the original article at ZD net, or the report at Smobile systems. // Share|