Vodafone is cracked femtocellen of its network to fend off. According to the provider was the hole in the security of the private lwa-cell towers already in 2010 poem, but there are still femtocellen that work with the old firmware.
After the vulnerability in 2009, was discovered, in early 2010, a fix for the Sure Signal-femtocellen rolled out. However, there are still a handful of’ private cell towers that the old firmware works. In the hack is, in addition, also a method is provided for a update to prevent.
To the hack to make it impossible, femtocellen with old firmware now network banned, says Vodafone. The provider claims in addition that the impact of the hack ‘small’, because only customers in a radius of 50 meters around a hacked femtocell to be susceptible to the hack.
Computer hacker group The Hacker’s Choice says that Vodafone is wrong: the way in which root access to the femtocell is obtained would be blocked, but the femtocellen would still always have full access to the Core network of Vodafone. In addition, according to the hackers, in theory, a lot more people victim of the hack then Vodafone claims.
Wednesday revealed that hackers through the femtocellen all the customers of Vodafone can listen to, and their costs can call. For the hack need to the femtocel be doctored. Thus, the part removed that Vodafone is the location track and hardware to be connected. The hack is, however, not all consumers are easy to perform.