A longtime vulnerability in Signaling System 7, the international telecommunications standard used by cellphone providers, helped attackers breach the accounts of bank customers in Germany. A ...

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 ...

With the Republican administration in Washington grappling with new disputes seemingly on a daily basis, two Democratic Congressmen, known to be technologically savvy and vocal about cybersecurity ...

Two-factor authentication may be the best way of keeping our online accounts safe, but even this system has vulnerabilities. In Germany, a known security flaw in a networking protocol used by ...

There's a major vulnerability in the way phone networks talk to each other — and hackers have used it to drain victims' bank accounts. What's more: The issue has been known about for years, and public ...

There Are Tapes. And Then There Are T-A-P-E-S. On April 17, 2016, the CBS news magazine show, 60 Minutes aired an episode titled “Hacking Your Phone.” The following excerpt took place between the ...

There's a major vulnerability in the way phone networks talk to each other — and hackers have used it to drain victims' bank accounts. What's more: The issue has been known about for years, and public ...