Android IMSI-Catcher Detector: AIMSICD

AIMSICD is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers . IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers base stations acting between the target mobile phones and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the...

Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3

The recently concluded Chaos Communications Congress 31c3 in Hamburg, Germany was an all-out assault on cellular call privacy and security. Of particular interest was the SS7 protocol used to route calls between switching centers. Researchers, doing parallel research as it turns out, found gaping...

Spy Planes Equipped with Dirtbox Devices Collecting Smartphone Data

The U.S. government is reportedly using spy airplanes equipped with special military-grade snooping equipment to eavesdrop on cell phone information from millions of smartphone users in U.S, according to a new report. This little device, nicknamed "Dirtbox", is being used to mimic mobile phone...

How a Cell Phone User Can be Secretly Tracked Across the Globe

Since we are living in an era of Mass surveillance conducted by Government as well as private sector industries, and with the boom in surveillance technology, we should be much worried about our privacy. According to the companies that create surveillance solutions for law enforcement and...

Security flaw in 3G could allow anyone to track your smartphone

New privacy threats have been uncovered by security researchers that could allow every device operating on 3G networks to be tracked, according to research from the University of Birmingham with collaboration from the Technical University of Berlin. Researchers said that standard off-the-shelf...

ClubHack Sec Conference 2011 - Hacking your Android

Document Title: =============== ClubHack Sec Conference 2011 - Hacking your Android References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/459.wmv View: http://www.clubhack.tv/2011/hacking-your-droid-aditya-gupta/ Release Date: ============= 2012-02-27 Vulnerability...

New Android Trojan Surfaces in China

Lookout Mobile Security discovered a new Android based Trojan called HongTouTou aka ADRD Trojan that is packaging itself in popular Android apps and delivering itself through app markets and Chinese forums. This piece of malware is requesting additional permissions from users and may also be...

Researcher to Show Off GSM Intercept Attack at Defcon

At the Defcon conference later this week, Chris Paget, a well-known security researcher who focuses on wireless and RFID issues, will give a demonstration of a technique that enables him to intercept calls made on GSM wireless handsets without any interaction with the user’s handset. The techniqu...