BlackHat EUROPE

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2016
Abusing protocols in LTE networks to knock mobile devices off networks

A group of researchers from Nokia Bell Labs and Aalto University in Finland demonstrated how to hack protocols used in the LTE networks. We discussed several times the rule of the SS7 signaling protocol in mobile communications and how to exploit its flaws to track users. When mobile users travel between countries, their mobile devices connect to the infrastructure of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2014
Same Origin Method Execution attack to perform unintended actions on a website on behalf of victims

A researcher presented a new attack method dubbed Same Origin Method Execution which could be exploited to impersonate the targeted user on many websites. Same Origin Method Execution (SOME) is a new technique of attack against website presented by Ben Hayak, researcher at Trustwave, at Black Hat Europe in Amsterdam. The Same Origin Method Execution (SOME) attack method is […]