A Flawed Network, By Any Other Name…

via Lily Hay Newman, writing for Wired Magazine, comes this outstanding piece on the extant tally of known flaws within deployments of 5g networking hardware infrastructure. H/T

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Krebs On Security: Brilliant Exposé Of US Wireless Carriers

Fellow member of the Security Bloggers Network – Brian Krebs and his superlative blog Krebs On Security provides a tour de force exposé of the unfortunate current security posture of the wireless carriers in the United States. Read it my friends… Continue reading Krebs On Security: Brilliant Exposé Of US Wireless Carriers

The Story: Vermont State Official Proves Carrier Claims Of Coverage Are Hogwash

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John Dillon writing at Vermont Public Radio, brings forth the true story of Cory Chase, a State of Vermont Telecommunications Infrastructure Specialist and his quest to accurately detail mobile telephony signal coverage in hi… Continue reading The Story: Vermont State Official Proves Carrier Claims Of Coverage Are Hogwash

Ray Ozzie Points His Magic Wand At Mobile Encryption

Ray Ozzie’s (the former CTO of Microsoft Corporation (Masdaq: MSFT) that created Lotus Notes…) patented encryption plan is clearly not indicative of a tenable solution to the encryption problems governement agencies, and vendors like (Nasdaq: AAPL)… Continue reading Ray Ozzie Points His Magic Wand At Mobile Encryption

A Cornucopia of Flaws, The LTE Debacle

via Sean Gallagher, writing at Ars Technica, comes the astounding story of mobile telephony flaws extraordinaire. Also known as the vector of choice for espionage, network intrusion, and data exfiltration. Today’s MustRead.
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Developer Errors Exposes 180 Million Phones to Compromise

Oops, They Did It Again! Coupled with the other well-known security issues (e.g., the recently exposed (but decades old) SS7 Flaw) this latest display of security-related development governance (or lack-thereof) by the MNO’s is highly dangerous; and s… Continue reading Developer Errors Exposes 180 Million Phones to Compromise