Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Hackers have proven just how urgently a gaping flaw in the global telecoms network, affecting what's known as Signalling System ...

Relying on an obscure yet vital communications system, researchers have been able to demonstrate the chaos hackers could wreak by infiltrating SMS messaging and rendering many two-factory security ...

For years, experts have warned of vulnerabilities in the network that routes phone calls and cellular service — but those attacks may be more widespread than anyone realized. For more than a year, a ...

The lack of security built into phone networks leaves callers vulnerable to snooping, but the growth of encrypted communications will help protect privacy Editor’s Note (2/1/19): For years hackers ...

A massive security hole in modern telecommunications is exposing billions of mobile phone users around the world to covert theft of their data, bugging of their voice calls and tracking of their ...