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SIM card hack has severe implications for business
2013-07-23 19:16:34| InfoWorld: Top News
It's amazing it took so long. More than 20 years after its initial development, the SIM card has been hacked. A German cryptographer named Karsten Nohl will be presenting findings to that effect at the annual Black Hat computer security conference at the end of the month.
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SR Labs finds major vulnerability in Sim card update methods
2013-07-23 11:56:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) German research lab Security Research Labs has discovered a vulnerability in Sim cards, whereby a cracked DES key allows an attacker to send Sim malware in the form of a Java applet. RS Labs recommends the mitigation of remote Sim exploitation on three layers: better Sim cards with long cryptography, handset SMS firewall anchored in each handset, and in-network SMS filtering. SR Labs founder Karsten Nohl told the New York Times that he obtained a 56-digit key by sending a virus to the phone by SMS. Once the virus is in place, a malicious party can read the device's SMS and steal data from the Sim card, mobile identity and charge transactions to it.
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SIM Card Flaw Could Wreak Havoc on Millions of Phones
2013-07-23 00:07:22| TechNewsWorld
About 25 percent of mobile phones currently in use may be vulnerable because they rely on 1970s-era Data Encryption Standard security, according to Security Research Labs. Out of 1,000 SIM cards it tested over two years, 250 used DES instead of more advanced approaches such as triple DES or the Advanced Encryption Standard, the lab said. About 7 billion SIM cards are used worldwide.
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The humble SIM card has finally been hacked: Billions of phones at risk of data theft, premium rate scams
2013-07-22 14:53:02| Extremetech
It took a long time, but the humble SIM card that sits within your phone, and seven billion others, has finally been hacked. Of the seven billion modern SIM cards in circulation, hundreds of millions are estimated to be susceptible. The hacks allow a would-be attacker to infect your SIM with a virus that sends premium text messages, or records your phone calls -- and, in some cases, access the secure, sandboxed details stored on your SIM by mobile payment apps, giving a hacker access to your bank and credit card details. Now that a proof of concept has been demonstrated, we wouldn't be surprised if billions of other SIM cards are also vulnerable to other attack vectors.
SIM cards vulnerable to hacking, says researcher
2013-07-22 13:44:26| InfoWorld: Top News
Millions of mobile phones may be vulnerable to spying due to the use of outdated, 1970s-era cryptography, according to new research due to be presented at the Black Hat security conference. Karsten Nohl, an expert cryptographer with Security Research Labs, has found a way to trick mobile phones into granting access to the device's location and SMS functions and allow changes to a person's voicemail number.
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