Relying on an obscure yet vital communications system, researchers have been able to demonstrate the chaos hackers could wreak by infiltrating SMS messaging and rendering many two-factory security ...

Hackers have been known to use all manner of remote access tools to break into mobile phones, often by finding vulnerabilities in an operating system like Android or even in SIM cards. It’s more rare ...

Two-factor authentication may be the best way of keeping our online accounts safe, but even this system has vulnerabilities. In Germany, a known security flaw in a networking protocol used by ...

Welcome to Zero Day's Week In Security, our roundup of notable security news items for the week ending January 2, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more. This week the Internet ...

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and California Representative Ted Lieu are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a mobile network vulnerability that they consider to be a systemic digital ...

Although two-factor authentication is an important tool in protecting your online accounts, it's not a panacea. A single weak link in the chain can give an attacker a way into a system. In 2014, a ...

A report from CBS’ 60 Minutes over the weekend highlighted a disturbing vulnerability in modern cellular communications, specifically the SS7 protocol used for voice, text and billing, that could ...

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 ...

Yesterday, FORBES published a profile of a $20 million spy service that exploits weaknesses in a critical piece of telecoms networks known as SS7, short for Signalling System No. 7. The company ...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is pushing the Federal Communications Commission to speed up its investigation into a phone security flaw in light of a stolen database of Democratic congressional contact ...

A massive security hole in modern telecommunications is exposing billions of mobile phone users around the world to covert theft of their data, bugging of their voice calls and tracking of their ...