The world is fighting against a fairly unknown enemy named COVID-19 and preparing in every possible way to win the battle. One of the strategies to reduce the spreading of COVID-19 virus is “contact tracing”. This “contact tracing” means to…
Hacking 5G Network Infrastructure – IMSI catchers and hackathon
Fake Base Station problem in 5G Continuing with the previous blogpost, we discuss the problem of fake base stations in general and a number of protection measures added in 5G standards. IMSI catcher is a device to identify and track…
New vulnerabilities in 5G Security Architecture & Countermeasures (Part 1)
The 5G network promises to transform industries and our digital society by providing enhanced capacity, higher data rates, increased battery life for machine-type devices, higher availability and reduced power consumptions. In a way, 5G will act as a vehicle to drive much needed digital transformation race and will push the world into the information age. Also, 5G can be used to replace the existing emergency communication network infrastructures. Many countries are about to launch 5G services commercially as 5G standards have been developed by the 3GPP group, including security procedures. The following map in Figure 1 shows 5G deployments worldwide.
