Hackers have proven just how urgently a gaping flaw in the global telecoms network, affecting what's known as Signalling System No. 7 (SS7), needs to be fixed. In a video demonstration ...

Real SS7 exploit services hidden The above doesn't mean that there are no SS7 exploitation services on the dark web, but rather that the real ones are hidden behind membership-only hacking forums ...

It could be a call with a bank." The hack was done by accessing Signalling System No. 7, or SS7, a telephony signalling language used by more than 800 telecommunication companies around the world ...

Short for Signalling System No. 7, SS7 is the routing protocol that allows cell phone users to connect seamlessly from network to network as they travel throughout the world. With little built-in ...

But now, a team of researchers has created a set of open-source SS7 solutions, making fixes to one of the world's most persistent vulnerabilities available to all. Fixing flaws in SS7 will take ...

The congressman said people at intelligence agencies, who are aware of the SS7 flaw and abuse it, should be fired. You might know that if a hacker has nothing more than your phone number ...

The same security flaws that cursed the older SS7 standard and were used with 3G, 2G and earlier are prevalent in the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard, ...

Security researchers say the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard is vulnerable to the same types of vulnerabilities as the older SS7 standard used ...