It is becoming relatively easy and cheap for criminal hackers, spies, or other digital miscreants to eavesdrop on SMS message and even voice calls on the GSM cell phone network, in some cases with ...

A researcher at the Def Con security conference in Las Vegas demonstrated that he could impersonate a GSM cell tower and intercept mobile phone calls using only $1500 worth of equipment. The cost ...

A pair of security researchers has discovered a number of new attack vectors that give them the ability to not only locate any GSM mobile handset anywhere in the world, but also find the name of ...

The attack works by exploiting features in GSM, or Global System for Mobile Communications, cellular networks that transmit data sent between base stations and phones in clear text.

Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday ...

Cingular chose GSM partially because of cost factors--the company will have to switch only 70% of its markets--and expects to achieve savings from bulk equipment purchases, Clift said.

Homemade system intercepts mobile-phone data on GSM networks used by AT&T and T-Mobile -- and Phones are fooled most easily by spoof cell tower Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine ...

A researcher at the Def Con security conference in Las Vegas demonstrated that he could impersonate a GSM cell tower and intercept mobile phone calls using only $1500 worth of equipment. The cost ...