A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...

A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...

Berlin: A German computer engineer said on Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, saying it was his attempt to ...

Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that ...

A group of hackers trying to force the cell phone industry into upgrading their security claims to have broken and published the code that keeps calls made on billions of phones secret. According to a ...

But their work wasn't seen as an immediate threat by the group that represents hundreds of GSM operators worldwide. Led by German researcher Karsten Nohl, the 24-person team spent five months trying ...

Looks like all that GSM code-cracking is progressing faster than we thought. Soon after the discovery of the 64-bit A5/1 GSM encryption flaw last month, the geniuses at Israel's Weizmann Institute of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Computer hackers this week said they had cracked and published the secret code that protects 80 per cent of the ...

The 21-year old encryption standard used to protect phone calls on the most widely used mobile standard has been cracked. Karsten Nohl, a German computer engineer revealed yesterday that he had ...

LONDON – The GSM Association is playing down concerns raised by a team of Israeli scientists about the security of GSM mobile calls. The researchers, from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa ...