SS7 has been the tried and true signaling mechanism for providing signaling in traditional PSTN networks. But, with voice-over-IP (VoIP) becoming a more important technology for carriers, carriers are ...

Researchers Tobias Engel and Karsten Nohl demonstrated serious vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocol for cellular service, putting the privacy of phone calls and users’ location data at risk for ...

July 15, 2014. GL Communications Inc. has announced the release of its latest enhanced product, Call Capture & Analysis of SS7 Signaling and Traffic. Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of the company said, “SS7 ...

The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around ...

A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts, according to a report ...