Telcos riddled with security holes: #HITB2012KUL Researcher

https://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materials/D1T1%20-%20Philippe%20Langlois%20and%20Emmanuel%20Gadaix%20-%206000%20Ways%20and%20More.pdf

A security industry veteran has criticised telecommunications equipment vendors for supressing knowledge of vulnerabilities that could result in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of network outages.

In a presentation to Hack In The Box Malaysia (pdf), P1 Security director Philippe Langlois described how a single malformed network packet could disable a carrier’s GSM subscriber database.


Original news article at https://news.hitb.org/ on October 16, 2012 at 06:03AM