The network that underpins all mobile communications in the world has been compromised, and it’s up to mobile operators to sort it out. Late last year, numerous news reports emerged following fresh ...

No. 7 The common line signaling system (SS7) is one of the signaling systems used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN), and is adopted all over the world including Japan. With the technique ...

Hackers have proven just how urgently a gaping flaw in the global telecoms network, affecting what's known as Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), needs to be fixed. In a video demonstration, shown to ...

Spies and hackers are actively exploiting a backbone of how mobile phones communicate—and telecoms have known about it for 19 years. By targeting a network and set of related protocol known as SS7, ...

Signaling System Number Seven, or SS7, is a widely-used protocol that enables mobile operators’ subscribers to communicate with each other. At the heart of an operator’s network, SS7 contains highly ...

Update: Rep. Ted Lieu has now written to the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requesting a formal investigation into the vulnerability. In his letter, the Congressman ...

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 ...

There's a major vulnerability in the way phone networks talk to each other — and hackers have used it to drain victims' bank accounts. What's more: The issue has been known about for years, and public ...