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Can a SMS recipient charge any arbitrary fee to the sender without approval?
I received an email from a prospective "client" in broken English. We have been going back and forth about services for a while and he wants me to text him. Is it possible for him to charge me some ...
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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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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 ...
