… This idea is known as the “baseband apocalypse,” and it is nothing new. At last year’s Black Hat DC Conference, security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann presented the vulnerabilityand warned that new open source tools for establishing mobile base stations will make smartphones easier to exploit than in the past, when the code for base stations was retained by [...]
Israel has agreed to arm India with cryptography and crypto-analysis know-how that will allow security establishment to intercept encrypted or coded messages and data transfers done through dedicated networks. As a first step, Tel Aviv-based RSA, part of technology major and multi-billion EMC proposes to set up a base in India to develop specialised solutions [...]
“A team of German researchers appears to have cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 encryption algorithms used by many (though not all) satellite phones. Anyone fancy putting a cluster together for a listening party? ‘Mr. Driessen told The Telegraph that the equipment and software needed to intercept and decrypt satellite phone calls from hundreds of thousands of users [...]
