SS7
Documents reveal how Russia taps phone companies for surveillance
In cities across Russia, large boxes in locked rooms are directly connected to the networks of some of the country’s largest phone and internet companies. These boxes, some the size of a washing
Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords
May was a momentous month, which marked a victory for sanity and pragmatism over irrational paranoia. I’m obviously not talking about politics. I’m talking about Microsoft finally —
Trump has two ‘secure’ iPhones, but the Chinese are still listening
President Trump has three iPhones — two of them are “secure” and his third is a regular personal device. But whenever the commander-in-chief takes a call, his adversaries are said to be
Coinbase vulnerability is a good reminder that SMS-based 2FA can wreak havoc
Two days ago, a friend who invested in Bitcoin asked me how secure her Coinbase investment was. She had plans to put her coins in cold storage, but as a security stopgap was relying on two-factor auth
Privacy hawks in Congress call on Homeland Security to warn Americans of SS7 hacking threat
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 thr