Simple Security for Wireless

[OutofDate1980]

"In early August, at the Def Con conference -- a major annual gathering of computer hackers -- someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees' cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach of a 4G cellular network."

Simple security for wireless

 

[9to5cynic]

Cool find.

For those not clicking the link, it's a MITM attack.

 

[OutofDate1980]

I thought it maybe of interest. I try to keep the excerpt short, in this case maybe to short, so just a bit more from same source.

"Coincidentally, a week later, at the 20th Usenix Security Symposium, MIT researchers presented the first security scheme that can automatically create connections between wireless devices and still defend against MITM attacks."

 

[johnlgalt]

Coincidentally? lol....

 

[alostpacket]

Isnt this basically what Diffie-Helman (sp?) is supposed to prevent?

I'll have to read the paper later. But it seems a bit silly, since there have been sucessfull attacks on 2G and 3G for years. But the cost of setting up a fake tower was somewhat of a deterrence (AFAIK).

Thanks for the link though, this stuff always intrigues me.