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Stories about: call eavesdropping

Hacker Intercepts Phone Calls at DEFCON Chris Paget, a security researcher known for his work in the field of radio communications security, demonstrated how GSM phone calls can be intercepted with inexpensive equipment at the DEFCON hackers conference in Vegas. The technique exploited a loophole in current GSM implementations.Paget made a name for himself... 2 August 2010 06:54 GMT Researcher Releases Phone Call Eavesdropping Software A security researcher has released open source software that can be used to record and decrypt communications passing over 2G GSM networks. Unlike other available solutions, that require very expensive set-ups, this free set of tools can work on off-the-shelf equipment.The software was demoed at the Black Hat securit... 30 July 2010 03:23 GMT