26C3 - 26C3 1.15
26th Chaos Communication Congress
Here be dragons
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Dieter Spaar |
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| Day | Day 3 - 2009-12-29 |
| Room | Saal2 |
| Start time | 16:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 3608 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Hacking |
| Language used for presentation | English |
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Playing with the GSM RF Interface
Doing tricks with a mobile phone
This talk will show what can be done by taking control of the GSM RF part of a mobile phone, for example performing a DoS attack to the GSM network or using the phone as a sniffing device.
If the RF hardware of a mobile phone can be controlled, lots of things are possible, for example:
- Sending continuous Channel Request which can lead to a huge load for a GSM cell and could be considered as a DoS attack to the GSM network.
- Use a mobile phone as a cheap GSM receiver for sniffing the air traffic somehow similar to what can be done with the USRP.