GSM Crack Shows Low Priority for Wireless Security (CIO Today)
Posted by on 31 Dec 2009 at 07:34 am | Tagged as: Hosting
The cracking of GSM encryption by 28-year-old German security expert Karsten Nohl has sent shock waves through the wireless industry. But the crack should come as no surprise to an industry that has long given short shrift to security, an analyst says. Nohl — working with others around the Internet — has created a guidebook for cracking the Global System for Mobile communication’s 64-bit A5/1 …