The Fall of SS7 - How Can the Critical Security Controls Help?

For decades, the security of one of the fundamental protocols in telecommunications networks, Signaling System No. 7 (SS7), has been solely based on the mutual trust between the interconnecting operators. Operators relied on their trust in other operators to play by the rules, and the SS7 network...

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Hassan Mourad

August 31, 2015

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