Tag: セキュリティ cellular

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German Researcher Cracks GSM Codes – Offensive Security Research Illegal?

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This is big news, and falls in line with mobile security research to be executed during the first part of 2010. A German researcher has made eavesdropping on GSM phone conversations post-facto (not real time) as easy as a beefy computer and $3,000 of radio equipment. The key to all of this, however, is the code book that this German researcher has access to. Karsten Nohl, the German scientist, made his presentation available here. The beefy computer is to crack the GSM codes and create the lookup table. The radio equipment is for tracking the spread spectrum signal.The most interesting … Continue reading German Researcher Cracks GSM Codes – Offensive Security Research Illegal?

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The Last 10 Years In Mobile Phones

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This is a neat write-up of a timeline of the mobile phone over the past ten years. I wrote a similar timeline for the RSA security conference here is Japan last May, but went much further back to the original mobile phones. Wikipedia also has a great timeline in the history section of the mobile phone category. This is something we take for such granted these days, and was a rich man’s novelty just 20 years ago; but even then it was limited to gadgets installed in vehicles for the most part. My claims to this historical bit are – … Continue reading The Last 10 Years In Mobile Phones