Even where users have chosen strong passwords and taken extra security measures, their Facebook accounts are not safe from hackers. Researchers have proven just that by taking control of a Facebook ...

Signaling System 7 (SS7) is an international telecommunication protocol standard that defines how the network elements in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) exchange information and control ...

Sitting just below the world’s cellular networks is another, hidden network—one that, among other things, makes it possible for you to roam between cell towers, carriers and countries with ease. But ...

With just a few million dollars and a phone number, you can snoop on any call or text that phone makes - no matter where you are or where the device is located. That’s the bold claim of Israel’s ...

Security researchers say they have caught a surveillance company in the Middle East exploiting a new attack capable of tricking phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber's location. The attack ...

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 ...

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and California Representative Ted Lieu are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a mobile network vulnerability that they consider to be a systemic digital ...

The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around ...

A US Congressman has learned first-hand just how vulnerable cellphones are to eavesdropping and geographic tracking after hackers were able to record his calls and monitor his movements using nothing ...

It was only a matter of time, but the shortcomings of SS7 have become an issue impossible to ignore. The 40 year old telephone network signalling protocol has hit global headlines twice over the last ...

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 ...