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August 10, 2010

Can your mobile calls be intercepted? This tool can tell

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 12:25 am

by Elinor Mills, CNew news.com

A researcher released software at the Black Hat conference on Thursday designed to let people test whether their calls on mobile phones can be eavesdropped on. The public availability of the software – dubbed Airprobe — means that anyone with the right hardware can snoop on other peoples’ calls unless the target telecom provider has deployed a patch that was standardized about two years ago by the GSMA, the trade association representing GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) providers, including AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20012144-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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