Description: At nullcon Goa - International security conference held on 15-18th Feb 2012, one of the talks given by telecom security experts Akib sayyed , Dipesh goyal, Bipul Sahu and Nitin Agarwal from Matrix Shell, demonstrated various critical vulnerabilities in GSM networks deployed in India. The fact that anyone can impersonate another no. and can't be traced back was alarming. The following issues were disclosed at the conference:
Impersonating someone else's identity
1.using IMSI and making calls
2.Possible threats include
a.identity theft
b.Huge mobile bills or no balance of the victims
c.An attacker can create a grid of such hardware and can empty the phone balance of each subscriber in just less than 3 hrs.
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