GSM Interception (An active attack on GSM Networks)

The reliance on cellular communication and its use in transfer of sensitive information, both of private and business critical nature, raises the need for up to date security measures. This book discusses one security lapse in GSM architecture, lack of mutual authentication, and serves as a proof of concept where man in the middle attack was deployed on live networks. The purpose is to highlight the above mentioned flaw and to motivate changes/additions in standards to discourage such a possibility.