SHANGHAI — At the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, network signalling security experts Evolved Intelligence warned that operators racing to deploy 5G services in time for the Winter Olympic games in 2018 were in danger of forgetting the security lessons of the past.
Co-Founder and Commercial Director Peter Blackie said that not enough progress had yet been made on securing 5G network signalling. “It is only in the last couple of years,” he said, “that we have begun to protect the open door in the SS7 signalling protocol used in second and third generation networks. Hackers and fraudsters have found that door and have now begun exploiting the weakness.
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