SS7 STRIKES AGAIN — *Saudi Arabia reportedly tracked phones by using industry-wide carrier weakness* *Kingdom sent US carrier millions of location requests through SS7.* DAN GOODIN - 3/30/2020 *arsTECHNICA* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/saudi-arabia-reportedly-tracked-phones-by-using-industry-wide-carrier-weakness/
The Guardian says it has evidence that Saudi Arabia is exploiting a decades-old weakness in the global telecoms network to track the kingdom’s citizens as they travel in the United States. The publication cited data provided by a whistleblower that suggests Saudi Arabia is engaged in systematic spying by abusing Signalling System No. 7. Better known as SS7, it’s a routing protocol that allows cell phone users to connect seamlessly from carrier to carrier as they travel throughout the world. With little built-in security for carriers to verify one another, SS7 has always posed a potential hole that people with access could exploit to track the real-time location of individual users. SS7 abuse also makes it possible for spies to snoop on calls and text messages. More recently, the threat has grown, in part because the number of companies with access to SS7 has grown from a handful to thousands. [ ..... ] WORLD NEWS MARCH 30, 2020 *Israel to use computer analysis to find likely coronavirus carriers* Steven Scheer, Tova Cohen *REUTERS* https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-tracking-idUSKBN21H2TT TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel’s defense ministry plans to use software that analyses data gathered from mobile phones - produced, according to Israeli media, by the spyware firm NSO - to help locate likely carriers of the coronavirus in order to test them. [ ..... ] -- /Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil. Principal Technologist & //Distinguished Senior Research Scholar// //Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)// //University of Hawai'i/
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