A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...

A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless ...

A group of hackers trying to force the cell phone industry into upgrading their security claims to have broken and published the code that keeps calls made on billions of phones secret. According to a ...

A German computer scientist working with a team of experts has broken the code used to secure about 80% of the world's mobile phones. But the group responsible for protecting GSM communications said ...

The 21-year old encryption standard used to protect phone calls on the most widely used mobile standard has been cracked. Karsten Nohl, a German computer engineer revealed yesterday that he had ...

Weinmann said that because of the nature of the vulnerability, there is a 50 percent chance of success with each attempt. But "vulnerabilities in the GSM code base are plentiful and shallow," he said, ...