The Federal Communications Commission is asking communications service providers to give the agency a progress update on how they are refurbishing their networks to prevent spies and cybercriminals ...

The problem is that SS7 was designed as an out of band protocol (or "signalling standard" hence "SS7") for a physically isolated, wired network that only a privileged few had access to. You had to be ...

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

Increasingly, cellular carriers and service providers are using IP networks to transport and route Signaling System 7 (SS7) traffic. The SS7 protocol boasts a mechanism for offloading the traditional ...