{"id":892,"date":"2010-07-28T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2010-07-28T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:27:24","slug":"hackers-to-get-eavesdropping-lessons-on-cell-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/hackers-to-get-eavesdropping-lessons-on-cell-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers to get eavesdropping lessons on cell calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security expert said he has devised a simple and relatively inexpensive way to snoop on cellphone conversations, claiming that most wireless networks are incapable of guaranteeing calls won&#8217;t be intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement has long had access to expensive cell-phone tapping equipment known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMSI-catcher\" target=\"_blank\">IMSI catchers<\/a> that each cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>But Chris Paget, who does technology security consulting work, says he has figured out how to build an IMSI catcher using a $1,500 piece of hardware and free, open-source software.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really not hard to build these things,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Paget will teach other hackers how to make their own IMSI catchers on Saturday during in a presentation at the annual Defcon security conference in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>His technique only works with wireless systems based on GSM technology, which is used by most of the world&#8217;s wireless carriers. In the United States, AT&amp;T and T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG operate on GSM systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GSM is broken,&#8221; Paget said on Tuesday in a telephone interview. He said he plans to demonstrate his low-cost IMSI catcher by asking audience members to make calls using GSM phones, than tap into their conversations from the podium.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for AT&amp;T Inc, the largest U.S. carrier that runs a GSM network, declined comment. Officials with T-Mobile were not immediately available for comments.<\/p>\n<p>more from <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idCATRE66Q6NS20100727\" target=\"_blank\">Reuter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security expert said he has devised a simple and relatively inexpensive way to snoop on cellphone conversations, claiming that most wireless networks are incapable of guaranteeing calls won&#8217;t be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,3],"tags":[59,107],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-security","tag-gsm","tag-imsi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-eo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}