"Security Gap Allows Eavesdropping on Mobile Phone Calls"

Researchers from the Horst Gortz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have shown that it is possible to decrypt the contents of telephone calls made via the LTE mobile network, 4G, which are supposed to be tap-proof. The decryption was performed through the exploitation of a flaw stemming from the implementation of the base stations. Relevant providers and manufacturers were made aware of the vulnerability before the researchers published the results about it. According to researchers, the vulnerability should have been addressed already. This article continues to discuss the security gap regarding how attackers could have exploited it and how researchers determined how widespread the gap was.

RUB reports "Security Gap Allows Eavesdropping on Mobile Phone Calls"