By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Law enforcement and military officials are increasingly using secret devices sometimes called “stingrays” to locate people via their cellphones, even when the phones aren’t in use, the Wall Street Journal reported recently. But finding people isn’t all that this type of gear can do. These types of machines mimic a cell tower and [...]
… Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop computer and a variety of open source software. While such capabilities have long been available to law [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything that’s said. The attack Chris Paget showed Saturday illustrates weaknesses in GSM, one of the world’s most widely used cellular communications technologies. His attack was benign; he showed [...]
