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The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around the world, according to a spokesman for US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Meanwhile, the spokesman said, one of the nation's major cellular carriers recently experienced a breach of that same protocol that exposed customer data.
[...] In a letter Sen. Wyden received last week, DHS officials warned that "nefarious actors may have exploited" SS7 to "target the communications of American citizens," Wyden spokesman Keith Chu told Ars, confirming an article published Wednesday by The Washington Post. On Tuesday, Wyden sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai that heightened concerns of SS7 hacks on US infrastructure.
"This threat is not merely hypothetical—malicious attackers are already exploiting SS7 vulnerabilities," Wyden wrote. "One of the major wireless carriers informed my office that it reported an SS7 breach, in which customer data was accessed, to law enforcement through the government's Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) Reporting Portal."
[...] Sen. Wyden's letter this week to the FCC chairman is a reminder that loopholes that allow all the carriers to share customer location data aren't the only threat facing cellphone users. In responses sent late last year to Wyden's questions about SS7 security, both Verizon and T-Mobile confirmed that they were still in the process of implementing firewalls that would filter malicious requests. AT&T, meanwhile, said it implemented such firewalls but didn't say when.
The senator accused the FCC of failing to adequately answer the threat posed by SS7, noting among other things that a working group the FCC convened in 2016 to address SS7 vulnerabilities was dominated by carrier insiders and comprised no academic experts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:54PM (3 children)
But now that we know for a fact that the DNC is being controlled by the CIA, which was recently frustrated beyond belief when their attempts to meddle in the US election failed and She Lost (such as fucking over Sanders with the mainstream media painting Sanders supporters, among whom were many, many women, as entirely failed men--incels, homosexuals, and rapists, aka "Bernie Bros"), why should we trust it?
But we also know that corporate IT is a bunch of shit, so that may be reason enough to pause before simply proclaiming that Sen. Wyden is attempting to find an inroads for implementing censorship of working class issues and organization on cell carrier networks.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday June 01 2018, @05:03PM
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:soylentnews.org+wyden&cad=h [google.com]
Wyden has consistently been on the correct side of digital liberties issues. Not that it has done much good, since for every Wyden, there is a Dianne Feinstein [fortune.com] and a couple of Republicans.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @07:31PM (1 child)
Roseanne, is that you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @07:49PM
Couldn't be. Roseanne would never defend those SJW faggots and leftist pussies. It's just the unending #salty tears from spineless beta cucks triggered by Trump Making America Great Again. Excellent jobs report this morning. Why hasn't @realDonaldTrump tweeted about it here yet?
Trump! Trump! Trump!