Unlike other times when I have discovered different bugs in the security of a telephony system, this time I have decided to make it public. So I wrote a research paper, looked for any security conference held this year in Europe and submitted it. Today when I have checked my email, I got one with [...]
I have recently made a research among top 7 banks regarding the POS terminal security. I’ve sent each bank two questions: 1. Regarding the wireless POS devices – that use a GPRS / EDGE connection – is there any security involved in sending data (is a secure data transfer between the device and bank)? If [...]
Researcher Karsten Nohl has recently presented at Chaos Communication Camp 2011 a way of intercepting GPRS traffic. What that means is that now you can read the traffic that your neighbor is doing on his phone, at least if he uses GPRS/EDGE. Along with Luca Melette, Karsten was able to [...]
