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Kindsight Protecting Mobile Subscribers solution now part of Alcatel Lucent

April 2, 2013 | Posted in News | By

Kindsight Protecting Mobile Subscribers solution has been acquired beginning of April by Alcatel Lucent to improve its capability with detection and remediation of mobile subscriber security problems. Protecting Mobile Subscribers | Kindsight.

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O2 is terminating Ericsson CUD systems due to crashes

October 17, 2012 | Posted in News | By

O2 has said it its ripping out its Ericsson CUD systems after two failures caused loss of services to customers resulting in reputational and financial damage to the operator. “(O2) CTO Derek McManus, writing on a company blog, said, “We are removing

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Huawei routers cracked open. The best backdoor may be a plausible-looking vulnerability

October 11, 2012 | Posted in News | By

Felix “FX” Lindner from Recurity / Phenoelit has found many vulnerabilities into the Huawei low-end to middle-end routers. Huawei’s problem? It ain’t the secret backdoors but wide-open front doors | David Akin’s On the Hill. FX’s slides on Huawei routers

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Huawei: Former Pentagon analyst says China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms

July 14, 2012 | Posted in News | By

Allegation that Huawei and ZTE have backdoors to enable chinese covert access to telecom infrastructure. Former Pentagon analyst: China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms | ZDNet. Huawei and ZTE deny backdoor allegations | The Inquirer. The Secret Ways of

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Pakistani-based telecom hacking gang aiming financial profit

February 9, 2012 | Posted in News | By

“Pakistani nationals Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin, wanted for their alleged involvement in an international telecommunications hacking scheme. Between 2008 and 2012, the pair gained unauthorized access to business telephone systems, resulting in losses exceeding $50 million. Arshad and

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GSM & UMTS MSRN (Mobile Roaming Numbers) information and frauds

December 4, 2011 | Posted in News | By

MSRN information and frauds from Humbug Labs http://www.humbuglabs.org/blog/2011/12/ring-ring-your-mobile-is-being-phreaked/

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Vodafone Femtocell hack

July 15, 2011 | Posted in News | By

The Hacker’s Choice has published details on how to use a Vodafone “Sure Signal” femtocell as a 3G phone interception point. http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Was-the-Vodafone-Femtocell-hack-new-1279947.html https://wiki.thc.org/vodafone  

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The Athens Affair – Ericsson AXE10 Mobile MSC backdooring & spying

June 29, 2007 | Posted in News | By

“The prime minister of Greece was told that his cellphone was being bugged, as were those of the mayor of Athens and at least 100 other high-ranking dignitaries”. “The victims were customers of Athens-based Vodafone-Panafon, generally known as Vodafone Greece.”

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Room 641A: telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency

October 31, 2006 | Posted in News | By

Room 641A: the scandal and lawsuit about a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Room 641A: telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency | Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

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AT&T’s network crash reveals vulnerable nature of networks

May 4, 1998 | Posted in News | By

  AT&T’s frame relay crash highlights vulnerable nature of data networks.

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