Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers.
Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their eavesdropping toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress (CCC) in Berlin.
The work builds on earlier research that has found holes in many parts of the most widely used mobile technology.
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GSM phones vulnerable to hacking, claim researchers Don’t bother with a lengthy ring-round of your friends to wish them a happy new year. Just leave one of them a message on their mobile and wait for everyone else to hack into it.
A little premature, you might think. And you’d be right. But a pair of security researchers have told a Berlin conference how they were able to eavesdrop on mobile phone calls and texts made on any GSM network - used by around 80% of the world’s phones - using four cheap phones, a laptop and some open source software. www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/31/mobile-phone-gsm-hack
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