2025-10-14
Time to un-embargo our @acm_ccs paper. We discovered that GEO satellites have been broadcasting a whole host of different kinds of traffic in the clear, including SMS and unencrypted calls from cellphones, military data, critical infrastructure, and more. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Researchers used $800 of off-the-shelf hardware to collect data sent by satellites unencrypted, like T-Mobile users' calls and texts and some US military comms
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users' calls …
2023-05-17
Police auction off many of the items they come into possession of. This includes cellphones. In a study led by @stack__trace we asked: are police wiping phones before they sell them? @briankrebs wrote about our study. In this 🧵, I'll give some highlights. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
Krebs on Security
Researchers bought 228 phones from PropertyRoom.com, a top auction house for US police departments, and found many had not been wiped and had no PIN or passcode
Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without … Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange . Tweets:...