Privacy hawks in Congress call on Homeland Security to warn Americans of SS7 hacking threat

{rss:content:encoded} Privacy hawks in Congress call on Homeland Security to warn Americans of SS7 hacking threat http://ift.tt/2mQ9JLR http://ift.tt/29TAuuL March 16, 2017 at 12:06AM  Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and California Representative Ted Lieu are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a mobile network vulnerability that they consider to be a systemic digital threat. In a new joint letter, the two members of congress questioned DHS Secretary John Kelly about flaws inherent in Signaling System 7 (SS7), a global telecommunications protocol that allows… Read More