Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls: "Via: Wired: A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and content before they’re routed on their proper way through [...]"
This is very cool. I know all about setting up rogue access points to intercept wifi communications, but setting up his own cell phone tower is a nice adaption to that attack. Definitely kicking up the complexity and cost of the the attack up a notch. Kudos!
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This is very cool. I know all about setting up rogue access points to intercept wifi communications, but setting up his own cell phone tower is a nice adaption to that attack. Definitely kicking up the complexity and cost of the the attack up a notch. Kudos!
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