We introduce LTrack, a new tracking attack on LTE that allows an attacker to stealthily extract user devices’ locations and permanent identifiers (IMSI). To remain stealthy, the localization of devices in LTrack is fully passive, relying on our new uplink/downlink sniffer. Our sniffer records both the times of arrival of LTE messages and the contentsContinue reading “LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE”
Tag Archives: Security
Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?
The first benefits are authenticity and availability: if you are running Tor Browser and if you click/type in exactly the proper Onion address, you are guaranteed to be connected to what you expect — or not at all. This is very simple for people to grasp, understand, and describe to their friends. Using onion servicesContinue reading “Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?”
Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening
Systemd enable services to run with a whole suite of hardening and sandboxing features from the Linux kernel. Here’s how to get a quick security review of the services running on your system and how to go about hardening their security. Read more…
1Password has raised $620 million (USD)
I’m delighted to announce that 1Password has raised $620 million in our latest investment round that values our company at $6.8 billion. This moment represents a lot of hard work by a lot of amazing people. Read more…
Security engineering course
This week sees the start of a course on security engineering that Sam Ainsworth and I are teaching. It’s based on the third edition of my Security Engineering book, and is a first cut at a ‘film of the book’. Read more…
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