Security gaps identified in LTE mobile telephony standard

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 11:36:38 PDT 2018


By abusing security weaknesses in the LTE mobile telephony standard,
attackers are able to identify which web pages a user visits and to reroute
him to a scam website. This is the result of a study carried out by
security experts from Horst Görtz Institute at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. All
devices using LTE, also referred to as 4G, are affected—i.e. almost all
mobile phones and tablets, as well as certain household devices connected
to the network. The weaknesses are impossible to close; and they are also
still present in the upcoming mobile telephony standard 5G, the
standardization of which is currently pending. Still, the problem may be
stemmed with the aid of other security mechanisms in b…

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-gaps-lte-mobile-telephony-standard.html
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