TrustWave just published some research on Femtocells (GSM base stations for enterprise sites) and found that those can be compromised, The Register reports.
after “hours of sniffing traffic, changing IP address ranges, guessing passwords and investigating hardware pinouts,” they “obtained root access on these Linux-based cellular-based devices”.
Femtocells and Picocells are equally vulnerable and there are doubts of how much valuable information could be gained by hacking into these devices. However it is important to note that more attacks are coming this way. This is mostly due to the fact that the devices are relatively new on the market and only now hackers are getting hands on experience.
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