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  • Mobile Internet Connections – Reliable Targets for Hackers

    Researcher Karsten Nohl, an expert in data security, started a campaign against the major mobile operators in order to determine the adoption of more stringent measures to secure data traffic created by the users of mobile internet services.

    To demonstrate how vulnerable users of mobile Internet connections are to hackers interested in spying them, he created a software application that once installed on the mobile phone allows us to monitor all data traffic carried by GPRS.

    The owner of such a GPRS interceptor can track Web surfing habits of other people and even intercept sensitive data, such as passwords or credit card details.

    The whole demonstration was made possible thanks to a cheap Motorola smartphone and some free applications, modified to allow the interception and decryption of data traffic transmitted in the mobile networks using GPRS.

    The researcher wanted to point out that the encryption algorithms used for secure connections in mobile networks cannot provide effective protection even in the face of attackers poorly trained and are even lacking in some operators.

    Apparently, mobile phone operators choose not to implement the algorithms performance for secure connections in order to monitor data traffic carried out by users, to facilitate the detection and blocking the viruses that spread inside the network and the detection and blocking of Skype connections.

    Two years ago, the same researcher revealed the algorithms required for decrypting the calls carried by GSM networks. Last year he launched an application that allows users to verify if the calls initiated in the telephone networks can be bugged or not by malevolent persons.

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  • IFA 2009: Menq Presents Mini GPS/GSM Tracker with GPRS

    VIDEO INTERVIEW: Biz-News.com interviewed Ann Meng, Marketing & Sales Manager of Menq International. She presented the company’s star product – mini GPS/GSM tracker with GPRS.

    This tiny device shows directly map location on any mobile without installing any software and transmits the SMS message of longitude, latitude and location link to cell phone. It supports indoor orientation, single location reporting and continuous tracking. In case of emergency, help message with location is send to all preset phone numbers.

    Menq’s products, include GPS/GPRS/GSM Trackers, Portable Navigation Device and GPS Mobile Phones, are sold to importers and ODM / OEM manufacturers in America, Asia, Europe and Middle East. In order to expand their overseas markets, the company have installed sales representatives in Germany and USA and is now actively seeking overseas partners to build up long term relationships.

  • European callers become more mobile as landlines increasingly shunned


    Almost a quarter of European households have given up fixed landlines for mobile phones and online calling, according to a European Union survey.
    The poll, carried out in November and December, found that 24 per cent of European households now eschew fixed landlines in favour of mobile phones, up from 22 per cent in a survey two years earlier.
    The Czech Republic, Finland and Lithuania had the lowest number of landlines in use across the 27-nation bloc.
    The results chime with the growing interest in the use of mobile VoIP services – either via GSM/GPRS wireless standards or through WiFi – and the widespread installation of internet calling software on smartphones.
    The EU survey – which questioned 26,730 people – also found that 22 per cent are now using their personal computers for phone calls or video chatting via programs such as Skype.
    That is a rise of 5 percentage points from the last poll.
    The survey said the bloc’s newer members, most of them in eastern Europe, were leading the trend in a shift to online calling.
    In Lithuania, 61 per cent of the households were using Internet phone services.