Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that ...
A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...
A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...
The 21-year old encryption standard used to protect phone calls on the most widely used mobile standard has been cracked. Karsten Nohl, a German computer engineer revealed yesterday that he had ...
Berlin: A German computer engineer said on Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, saying it was his attempt to ...
A German computer scientist working with a team of experts has broken the code used to secure about 80% of the world's mobile phones. But the group responsible for protecting GSM communications said ...
But their work wasn't seen as an immediate threat by the group that represents hundreds of GSM operators worldwide. Led by German researcher Karsten Nohl, the 24-person team spent five months trying ...
A group of hackers trying to force the cell phone industry into upgrading their security claims to have broken and published the code that keeps calls made on billions of phones secret. According to a ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Computer hackers this week said they had cracked and published the secret code that protects 80 per cent of the ...
A German boffin has cracked and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls. Karsten Nohl said that he had published the GSM algorithm to show how ...
Weinmann said that because of the nature of the vulnerability, there is a 50 percent chance of success with each attempt. But "vulnerabilities in the GSM code base are plentiful and shallow," he said, ...
A PUK code is required if a GSM SIM card was locked after entering the wrong PIN code three times in a row. Entering a wrong PUK code ten times in a row disables the SIM card permanently. Both the PIN ...