Signaling Firewalls, Network Resilience and Teenage SIM Swappers: Commsrisk Show 3
Are we building too much upon the insecure foundations of our networks? Failures can occur by both accident and design.
Are we building too much upon the insecure foundations of our networks? Failures can occur by both accident and design.
It is important for telco networks to be defended by signaling firewalls, but the protection they provide can be undermined by the way they are maintained.
The British operator implemented a new firewall in July but has not always been so adroit at protecting customers.
18 million fraudulent SMS messages were blocked during the first full month the firewall was operational.
Infobip founder Silvio Kutić is aggressively growing Croatia’s first unicorn through a series of acquisitions.
A bad firewall configuration rule forced Tier 1 operator CenturyLink offline and reduced global internet traffic by 3.5%.
UK signaling security firm Evolved Intelligence has been purchased by US mobile analytics business Mobileum.
The NetScreen line of firewalls had been compromised by unauthorized code, and was subject to a weakness relating to the random numbers used for encryption.