Philippe Langlois weblog

I'll be presenting "SCTPscan - Finding Entry Points to SS7 Networks & Telecommunication Backbones" at Black Hat Briefings in March in Amsterdam. My speech is on March, 29 and I'll be showing there the recent advances in penetration techniques against SS7 networks.

When people ask me "Why are you researching this?", I wondered and it came down to this reasonning: I like to explore, to discover things, to know about things that are unknown. And definitely, the SS7 network is one of the most used network (every time you make a phone call, it's the SS7 network that makes it possible), and yet most unknown to the general public (Go ahead, ask anybody if he knows Internet or SS7 network, replace SS7 by "Phone system" and you get a different answer). I think this governs quite a few things in my life: trying to understand things which are not very much studied but yet govern by their shape and interaction a lot of what we do.

Black Hat Briefings Europe 2007 Schedule

The outline of the conference