The Federal Communications Commission is asking communications service providers to give the agency a progress update on how they are refurbishing their networks to prevent spies and cybercriminals ...
Increasingly, cellular carriers and service providers are using IP networks to transport and route Signaling System 7 (SS7) traffic. The SS7 protocol boasts a mechanism for offloading the traditional ...
The existence of Signaling System 7 (SS7) mobile telephony protocol vulnerabilities is something security researchers warned about in 2016, and it only took a year before the first attacks exploiting ...
The problem is that SS7 was designed as an out of band protocol (or "signalling standard" hence "SS7") for a physically isolated, wired network that only a privileged few had access to. You had to be ...