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Thread ID: 119289 2011-07-14 22:29:00 IS this an issue with Vodafone NZ Femtocells? johcar (6283) PC World Chat
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1216937 2011-07-14 22:29:00 www.theregister.co.uk johcar (6283)
1216938 2011-07-14 23:57:00 www.theregister.co.uk
I would assume it was the same hardware so would have the same issues.
mikebartnz (21)
1216939 2011-07-15 02:09:00 Yes, but that kind of hack has been around for years... Chilling_Silence (9)
1216940 2011-07-15 11:30:00 wiki.thc.org is the original source. I'm still reading it now, so can't fully comment on it, but it looks like it can be turned into a man-in-the-middle device. That sort of attack has been around for a while on GSM networks, however this makes it piss easy. Earlier attack hardware cost thousands, usually custom-built, this is just a few hundred dollars. ubergeek85 (131)
1216941 2011-07-15 11:38:00 Looks like fun :devil The Error Guy (14052)
1216942 2011-07-15 11:54:00 Still reading, it looks like the main vulnerability is that the device unencrypts traffic itself, instead of just passing encrypted traffic on to the core network.

Snooping on voice calls is pathetically easy, just a quick bit of ipsec reconfig then it's wireshark and then anything that can play AMR-format audio.

Quite poor design really.
ubergeek85 (131)
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