Mobile Communication Security Threats

In the convergence of data and voice network, the mobile communication network is exposed to many security threats, just like any other data network. The security threats are very real and could be very harmful. We listed some of the unique mobile related security problems below:

• Capturing a subscriber’s data session
• Spoofed SGSN or GGSN
• Spoofed Create PDP Context Request
• Spoofed Update PDP Context Request
• Overbilling Attacks
• Border Gateway bandwidth saturation
• DNS Flood
• GTP Flood
• Spoofed GTP PDP Context Delete
• DNS Cache Poisoning
• Gi bandwidth saturation
• Application Layer attacks from Handsets

We need to address the mobile communication security issues from both the network infrastructure and the handset.