Signal System 7 (SS7) powers multiple phone carriers across the world including big names such as AT&T and Verizon - its global telecom network is used to route calls and text and in recent news, this ...

It was only a matter of time, but the shortcomings of SS7 have become an issue impossible to ignore. The 40 year old telephone network signalling protocol has hit global headlines twice over the last ...

Mobile security software can do little to protect end users and BYOD workers when Signaling System 7 (SS7) vulnerabilities are exploited in mobile operotors' core mobile networks, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...