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But South Korean researchers say they've found several weaknesses in VoLTE networks in the U.S. and South Korea.
Their findings, released in a research paper, conclude that it would be possible to spoof phone calls, conduct denial-of-service attacks and overbill customers. They also found it would be possible for a malicious Android app to make secret phone calls in the background due to a flaw in the mobile OS.
The fault also lies in part with operators, which haven't full[y] vetted their infrastructure for security issues. Also, LTE standards have been implemented in different ways by operators, opening up a variety security holes.
"Basically, there are mistakes and things they have overlooked," said Yongdae Kim, a professor with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's (KAIST) electrical engineering department, in a phone interview Tuesday.
T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T were notified of the issues in May, according to an advisory updated on Monday from Carnegie Mellon University's CERT. None of the companies had an immediate comment.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 21 2015, @04:00AM
+1, Informative
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by captain normal on Wednesday October 21 2015, @04:13AM
To paraphrase something I heard long ago: "Whatever man have wrought, can be hacked".
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday October 21 2015, @07:51PM
When did people stop believing it was not possible to phone phreak? That's whats news to me.
Because, well. nevermind. Perhaps the definition of phreaking is changing even though the holes are largely the same ones.
They've added more things to hack, they haven't taken away from the list, that's for sure.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @04:28AM
your mindhack has no cyberpower here