Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that ...

Looks like all that GSM code-cracking is progressing faster than we thought. Soon after the discovery of the 64-bit A5/1 GSM encryption flaw last month, the geniuses at Israel's Weizmann Institute of ...

The GSM Association confirmed the security hole but said it would be expensive and complicated to exploit. The trade group represents vendors of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) ...

An Israeli scientist said today his team had found a way to break into mobile phone calls made on the GSM network, allowing eavesdroppers… An Israeli scientist said today his team had found a way to ...

A group of hackers trying to force the cell phone industry into upgrading their security claims to have broken and published the code that keeps calls made on billions of phones secret. According to a ...

Weinmann said that because of the nature of the vulnerability, there is a 50 percent chance of success with each attempt. But "vulnerabilities in the GSM code base are plentiful and shallow," he said, ...