Lone Packet Crashes Telco Networks 57
mask.of.sanity writes "A penetration tester has shown that GSM communications systems can be taken down with a handful of malformed packets. The weakness was in the lack of security around the Home Location Register server clusters which store GSM subscriber details as part of the global SS7 network. A single packet, sent from within any network including femtocells, took down one of the clusters for two minutes."
The Lone Packet Crashed My Network (Score:3, Funny)
I was wondering why my router was playing the William Tell Overture.
What was in this packet? (Score:3, Funny)
Taco Bell Fire Sauce?
I usually... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The RF portion of the standards is well designe (Score:3, Funny)
Thankfully there are no examples of 'inter-networking' actually working in the wild, much less crazy stuff like hardware that can connect easily to almost any of those 'inter-networked' networks through standardized interfaces and protocols, so we can cut them some slack for failing to achieve such an absurdly difficult task...