wireless networks Archives

Mobile security efforts upgraded by Networks

12/23/201412/20/2014 Julie Campbell

New flaws have been discovered by the IT experts at Karsten Nohl that would open up user messages to hackers. Karsten Nohl IT experts in Berlin have discovered mobile security flaws in the wireless phone networks that would give access to hackers so that they would be able to read messages being exchanged by users. The team spotted the issue in the SS7 protocol that is used for encrypting data by mobile phone operators. That SS7 protocol is used for the mobile security encryption of data when messages are being…

Mobile commerce availability increases with better wireless networks

07/03/201307/01/2013 Stephanie Beck

Retailers all experience better site performance simply because of improvements to the networks, themselves. According to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Index, the wireless networks from Verizon and AT&T had been acting up, which had negatively impacted the smartphone site performance of all of the retailers on the index, but now that this problem is resolved, success rates have also improved. As the wireless networks smoothed out the issues they were experiencing, all of the index retailers saw improvements. That said, Keynote also pointed out that among all of the thirty…