Privacy hawks in Congress call on Homeland Security to warn Americans of SS7 hacking threat

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Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Privacy hawks in Congress call on Homeland Security to warn Americans of SS7 hacking threat

Wednesday, 15 March 2017 by Muhammad Ifzal

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and California Representative Ted Lieu are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a mobile network vulnerability that they consider to be a systemic digital threat. In a new joint letter, the two members of congress questioned DHS Secretary John Kelly about flaws inherent in Signaling System 7 (SS7), a global telecommunications protocol that allows… Read More