{"id":7003,"date":"2012-10-09T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2012-10-09T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:16:22","slug":"flaws-allow-3g-devices-to-be-tracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7003","title":{"rendered":"Flaws allow 3G devices to be tracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Two attacks were conducted using off-the-shelf kit and a rooted \u2014 or modified \u2014 femtocell unit which broadcasted a 3G signal. <strong>The attacks were made by intercepting, altering and injecting 3G Layer-3 messages into communication between the base station and mobile phones in both directions.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmagazine.com.au\/News\/317819,flaws-allow-3g-devices-to-be-tracked.aspx\">Flaws allow 3G devices to be tracked &#8211; Networks &#8211; SC Magazine Australia &#8211; Secure Business Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The researchers wrote that the attacks could be used to track staff movements within a building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The employer] would first use the femtocell to sniff a valid authentication request. This could happen in a different area than the monitored one. Then the employer would position the device near the entrance of the building. Movements inside the building could be tracked as well <strong>by placing additional devices to cover different areas of the building<\/strong>,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two attacks were conducted using off-the-shelf kit and a rooted \u2014 or modified \u2014 femtocell unit which broadcasted a 3G signal. The attacks were made by intercepting, altering and injecting 3G Layer-3 messages into communication between the base station and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[366,340,880,698],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-interesting-features","tag-mitm","tag-mobile-data","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7006,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}