The Simplest—And Most Common—Cellphones Are Vulnerable To The “SMS Of Death”
Despite how obsessed we may be with smartphones, it’s the simplest cellphones which are most common—and the most vulnerable. In fact, it seems that many of those phones could be rendered useless by a maliciously crafted SMS. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-popular-phone-in-the-world-5634258 It’s a scene from an as-yet-unmade thriller – across a country, tens of thousands of cell phones…
Breaking GSM Security With a $15 Phone
Whatever assurances have been given about the security of GSM cellphone calls, forget about them now. Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here today, 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…
French Cellphone Contracts Will Be the Death of You
Thought getting out of cellphone contracts here in the US was bad? Sorry. It’s got nothing on what American-in-Paris Leonora Epstein went through trying to break up with Orange. This is her story. Quelle horreur! Shortly after arriving in France a year and a half ago, I decided to scrap my shit pay- as-you-go phone…