Exploiting chronic vulnerabilities in GSM by using commodity hardware and software
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Abstract
The aim and objective of this thesis is double. Firstly, produces knowledge
base about publicly available on market equipment that can offer trusted solutions to
mobile security researchers to perform penetration tests on mobile network
infrastructures. Furthermore, it comes to underline the simplicity with a malicious
actor by only having on its possession a set of low-cost equipment, can introduce an
asymmetric threat to a large scale of users without the latter become aware of that
being directed. Finally, our thesis points those proven vulnerabilities that exist over
the years on the worldwide and old GSM network and the lack of security measures
and mechanisms that could protect the GSM subscribers.