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4G Gone Wild →

March 06, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Communication Security, Cellular Telephony, Information Security, Network Security

via Zack Whittaker, writing at the Zero Day blog at ZDNet, tells the story of recently discovered 4G LTE attacks, and the academicians studying the specifics of these pernicious exploits (the group's recently published paper is currently available). Today's MustRead. H/T

Ten attacks detailed in a new paper by researchers at Purdue University and the University of Iowa expose weaknesses in three critical protocol operations of the cellular network, such as securely attaching a device to the network and maintaining a connection to receive calls and messages. - Zack Whittaker, writing at the Zero Day blog at ZDNet

March 06, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Communication Security, Cellular Telephony, Information Security, Network Security
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