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What is preventing us from sniffing the mobile phone communcation?
I'm learning wireless penetration testing. It really is amazing. But it made me wonder, what about mobile phones? They are also means of wireless communication. So, our entire voice must be in the air ...
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Can A Powered Down Cell Phone be Turned On Remotely?
I know this is tin-foil hat fodder, but at least one judicial opinion (http://www.politechbot.com/docs/fbi.ardito.roving.bug.opinion.120106.txt) referenced a bug that could track/listen in on the ...
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How to trace a (mobile) phone?
Even since growing up, I've watched films in which the "bad guy" is repeatedly tracked down when they call the police or FBI or police force de jour. They always have "about 30 seconds". Regardless ...
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SMS / voice call interception with a fake base station
This answer to a similar topic describes in a detailed way how vulnerable SMS and voice calls are in terms of decryption. In order to do so, an attacker needs to set up a fake base station located ...
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How hard is it to intercept SMS (two-factor authentication)?
A lot of two-factor authentication mechanisms use SMS to deliver single-use passphrase to the user. So how secure is it? Is it hard to intercept the SMS message containing the passphrase? Do mobile ...
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How should I block BIS connections from accessing my Exchange Server
BIS is a technology from Blackberry that allows end users to connect to an Exchange server without a BES server.
The problem is that BES asserts a security policy on the devices, and BIS does not ...
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What makes the Blackberry device and network more secure?
One of Blackberry's strongest assets is the "network" that it uses. Can someone explain, or link to technical information that covers what this secure network is, and what it does better than the ...
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Security implications of rooting your android phone
My android smart phone has fancy features that I can get if and only if I root it, e.g., free-wifi tethering or Cisco VPN (with group name/password). However, the procedure to root my phone has me ...
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Android security without updates
I have an android phone which, like many others, has quickly become unsupported and is not receiving any updates. At the same time there are publicly available exploits for privilege-escalation ...
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How secure is Goodlink for mobile phones when compared to Activesync?
Some of our more technical users are arguing to use Activesync for their phones, while the corporate standard is limited to Blackberry and any device that supports Goodlink.
One argument is the ...
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Protecting cellphones from USB attacks (a.k.a. Juice Jacking)
We have several smartphone with encrypted data on them (BES, iPhone, Android) and want to prevent an unauthorized person from downloading information from the device via USB.
The visual assumption ...
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Mobile phone security eavesdropping based on data transfer
is there an easy way for particular governmental organizations (especially in
countries where freedom of speech is a problem) have some technology where
they can easily eavesdrop on cellphone internet ...
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Cell phone voice mail hacking
The news has been filled recently with the allegations that News of the World employees hacked into the voicemail inboxes of celebrities and crime victims. What flaw was exploited to accomplish this, ...
