The network that underpins all mobile communications in the world has been compromised, and it’s up to mobile operators to sort it out. Late last year, numerous news reports emerged following fresh ...

Hackers have proven just how urgently a gaping flaw in the global telecoms network, affecting what's known as Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), needs to be fixed. In a video demonstration, shown to ...

Spies and hackers are actively exploiting a backbone of how mobile phones communicate—and telecoms have known about it for 19 years. By targeting a network and set of related protocol known as SS7, ...

Signaling System Number Seven, or SS7, is a widely-used protocol that enables mobile operators’ subscribers to communicate with each other. At the heart of an operator’s network, SS7 contains highly ...

No. 7 The common line signaling system (SS7) is one of the signaling systems used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN), and is adopted all over the world including Japan. With the technique ...

With just a few million dollars and a phone number, you can snoop on any call or text that phone makes - no matter where you are or where the device is located. That’s the bold claim of Israel’s ...

As soon as the target switches the phone on, it’s already too late. Digital spies have pinpointed the phone’s location and, without hacking the device itself, are tracking it from tens of thousands of ...

A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts, according to a report ...

A previously-known security vulnerability in Signaling System 7 (SS7), the protocol that governs how mobile phones exchange calls and text messages worldwide, has been exploited by hackers to ...