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 ...

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 ...

Those naughty pictures you're emailing and texting from your iPhone? Hackers can see them. German mobile security researcher Karsten Nohl planned Wednesday to show how anyone could tap into voice and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux. In a paper released Tuesday ...

Kevin J. O’Brien divulges the news: A German computer engineer … has deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s … mobile phone calls. … Karsten Nohl, aimed to ...

A group of cryptographers has developed a new attack that has broken Kasumi, the encryption algorithm used to secure traffic on 3G GSM wireless networks. The technique enables them to recover a full ...

Encryption protects much of our data around the world. Our credit card transactions are encrypted, online medical records are encrypted, online banking transaction are encrypted along with all sorts ...

update A security expert is calling for the creation of a mobile app to alert users when their communications security has been compromised. Craig Heath, chief security technologist at the Symbian ...

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 ...