Handy Tracking via GSM
Ein Angriff auf die GSMN Infrastruktur erlaubt es Angreiferen Handys via GSM zu tracken.
Turns out you don’t even need a GPS to track a mobile phone user’s whereabouts and glean her movements and interactions: Researchers have discovered a way to use information from the GSM mobile infrastructure to track down someone and even listen in on her voicemail messages and calls. (…) Bottom line is it demonstrates inherent weaknesses in the way mobile providers interoperate over the GSM infrastructure. “There is a soft underbelly in the cell phone network…it’s an interoperability thing,” Bailey says. “We are taking advantage of the way these companies are exposing interfaces to each other. That’s where it becomes a serious problem.”