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%T A Denial of Service Attack to GSM Networks via Attach Procedure
%+ Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd)
%+ Università degli Studi e-Campus
%A Gobbo, Nicola
%A Merlo, Alessio
%A Migliardi, Mauro
%Z Part 2: Security Engineering
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 1st Cross-Domain Conference and Workshop on Availability, Reliability, and Security in Information Systems (CD-ARES)
%C Regensburg, Germany
%Y Alfredo Cuzzocrea
%Y Christian Kittl
%Y Dimitris E. Simos
%Y Edgar Weippl
%Y Lida Xu
%I Springer
%3 Security Engineering and Intelligence Informatics
%V LNCS-8128
%P 361-376
%8 2013-09-02
%D 2013
%K Mobile Security
%K GSM
%K cellular networks security
%K DoS attack
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesConference papers
%X Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) keep a strict control over users accessing the networks by means of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). This module grants the user access to the network, by performing the registration and authentication of the user’s device. Without a valid Subscribe IdentityModule (SIM) module and a successful authentication, mobile devices are not granted access and, hence, they are not allowed to inject any traffic in the mobile infrastructure. Nevertheless, in this paper we describe an attack to the security of a mobile network allowing an unauthenticated malicious mobile device to inject traffic in the mobile operator’s infrastructure. We show that even with devices without any SIM module it is possible to inject high levels of signaling traffic in the mobile infrastructure, causing significant service degradation up to a full-fledged Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
%G English
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%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01506555
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