S.M.S - Security in Mobile Services

Begins: 15:30
Ends: 16:10
Level: Intermediate
Track: Security
Topics: SMS, GPRS, WAP, voicemail

The future is mobile, more and more things become connected to Internet, connected to the mobile network. While this sounds as a good thing, we must not forget about the implications of having everything interconnected.

We will explore the mobile network security, starting from a simple, harmless text message that you send and then going through different security issues that I discovered on the mobile operators network. You will learn why having everything interconnected has a great impact on the security level, improve your knowledge about how a mobile network works, what happens behind the scenes when you perform different queries to the network, but also understand how to protect from potential attacks.