A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...

Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that ...

A group of hackers trying to force the cell phone industry into upgrading their security claims to have broken and published the code that keeps calls made on billions of phones secret. According to a ...

But their work wasn't seen as an immediate threat by the group that represents hundreds of GSM operators worldwide. Led by German researcher Karsten Nohl, the 24-person team spent five months trying ...

A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...

A demonstration of an attack against an Apple iPhone at the Black Hat Technical Security DC 2011 Conference in Arlington, Va., demonstrated that software in many GSM-based smart phones contains ...

Looks like all that GSM code-cracking is progressing faster than we thought. Soon after the discovery of the 64-bit A5/1 GSM encryption flaw last month, the geniuses at Israel's Weizmann Institute of ...

Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, a researcher at the University of Luxembourg who has spent several years reverse-engineering GSM code in search of vulnerabilities, demonstrated results of his work in progress ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Computer hackers this week said they had cracked and published the secret code that protects 80 per cent of the ...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Black Hat DC -- A European researcher today showed how bugs he has discovered in the baseband chipset firmware of iPhone and Android smartphones could be exploited to ultimately take ...

LONDON — The GSM Association is playing down concerns raised by a team of Israeli scientists about the security of GSM mobile calls. The researchers, from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa ...

The Android 2.3 a.k.a. Gingerbread source code has just been made available for everyone interested. Meanwhile the Google Nexus S Gingerbread has been ported to the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S. And as the ...