Hackers have been known to use all manner of remote access tools to break into mobile phones, often by finding vulnerabilities in an operating system like Android or even in SIM cards. It’s more rare ...

Spies and hackers are actively exploiting a backbone of how mobile phones communicate—and telecoms have known about it for 19 years. By targeting a network and set of related protocol known as SS7, ...

The network that underpins all mobile communications in the world has been compromised, and it’s up to mobile operators to sort it out. Late last year, numerous news reports emerged following fresh ...

Signaling System Number Seven, or SS7, is a widely-used protocol that enables mobile operators’ subscribers to communicate with each other. At the heart of an operator’s network, SS7 contains highly ...

No. 7 The common line signaling system (SS7) is one of the signaling systems used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN), and is adopted all over the world including Japan. With the technique ...

To keep pace with the evolution of SS7 (Signaling System 7)for fast, efficient signaling, GL Communications has enhanced its SS7 networkmonitoring and diagnostic system. In addition to billing ...

SS7 has been the tried and true signaling mechanism for providing signaling in traditional PSTN networks. But, with voice-over-IP (VoIP) becoming a more important technology for carriers, carriers are ...