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Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

March 28, 2008

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GSM, the world's most popular standard for mobile phones, has a reason to feel insecure.Researchers at the Black Hat Europe 2008 conference on Friday demonstrated how they could break GSM's encryption using relatively inexpensive off-the-shelf equipment and software tools. More specifically, they cracked an algorithm used to encypt conversations in the hopes of motivating mobile carriers to better secure their networks so that users' privacy and data won't be at risk.

David Hulton, one of the researchers, said it typically takes a loss in revenue for such change to occur. "Attacks will always get better; they'll never get worse," he said.

More than 2 billion people worldwide access GSM and 3GSM services, according to the GSM Association.Computerworld

About the Author(s)

Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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