Forwarded From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
27Apr98 GERMANY: COMPUTER HACKERS COPY MANNESMANN MOBILE PHONE SIM CARD.
Members of the Chaos Computer Club have succeeeded in finding a weak spot
in the mobile telecoms network D2. They were able to duplicate a D2 SIM
card and thus gain access to the digital mobile telecoms network D2.
More than four million people use the D2 network which is operated by
Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH (Duesseldorf). Mannesmann said that the cloning
poses no significant security risk to clients.
In order to clone a SIM card, the hackers had to have both a copy of the
original SIM card for at least 11 hours and know the PIN number.
Scientists at the University of California and the Smartcard Developers
Association in the USA already reported weaknesses in smaller mobile
telecoms networks at the beginning of April which work on the same GSM
standard as the German networks D1, D2 and E-Plus.
[Original article approx 400 words]
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (ENGLISH ABSTRACTS) 27/04/98 P25
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Received on Mon Apr 27 20:06:24 1998