At the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) last week, Karsten Nohl offered new insights and methods for cracking GSM encryption. There are four levels of encryption available for GSM, discussed ...

Kartsen Nohl, a German cryptographer and computer engineer, claims he has decrypted the GSM algorithm, which is used to encrypt GSM calls on mobile phones around the world. Nohl and his fellow hackers ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

A German computer scientist has published details of how to crack the A5/1 encryption algorithm used to protect most of the world's digital mobile phone calls. Karsten Nohl, along with others, has ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System ...

Two security researchers on Wednesday will demonstrate methods for intercepting and decoding calls and data transmitted over the popular GSM mobile network technology. Security researchers Karsten ...

The unveiling of a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) encryption codebook compiled by a German security researcher and his team of collaborators lowers the bar significantly for the amount ...

Late December saw the announcement that the A5/1 encryption technique used by GSM cellphones was vulnerable to a new attack, raising questions about how the cellular industry would respond. There was ...

An Australian company last week launched a security tool for GSM mobile phones that encrypts transmissions to avoid eavesdroppers. GSM is one of the most popular mobile phone standards and is built to ...