nullcon Delhi 2012: Day 2's action

Varun Haran, Reporter

7/14

Dirty use of USSD Codes in cellular networks

Ravishankar Borgaonkar, researcher from the Telecommunications Department at Technical University Berlin discussed how to play with USSD codes using Femtocell architecture, and exploit different services. In addition, the talk highlighted critical security issues in USSD based services such as virtual money transfer/mobile banking and social networking. He spoke about techniques to exploit to Airtel Money transfer and other USSD based services available in India.

<<In case you missed Day 1’s action, catch it here.

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