Tag: gsm

This GSM remote security camera allows you to secretly spy on your home to see who is invading your private study or lurking around in your home office. With its innovative technological advantage of motion detection and night vision capability, you are assured of always being able to have a clear MMS image send to your cellphone, and receive alerts once the motion detection feature automatically activates. more...

A researcher has shown that practical attacks on a long-standing mobile phone standard are possible.

The algorithm used to protect the security of communications on 80 percent of cell phones in the world can be relatively easily cracked to intercept calls, according to cryptographers at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress, a computer conference in Berlin. A German researcher presented an attack on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)--showing it's possible to eavesdrop on cell phone calls and intercept SMS messages. Mobile phones worldwide use GSM, though in the United States many carriers, including Verizon and Sprint PCS, use a competing standard.