Attacks on public telephone networks: technologies and challenges

T. Kosloff; Tyler Moore; J. Keller; Gavin W. Manes; Sujeet Shenoi

doi:10.1117/12.500826

22 September 2003 Attacks on public telephone networks: technologies and challenges

T. Kosloff, Tyler Moore, J. Keller, Gavin W. Manes, Sujeet Shenoi

Proceedings Volume 5071, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.500826
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Signaling System 7 (SS7) is vital to signaling and control in America's public telephone networks. This paper describes a class of attacks on SS7 networks involving the insertion of malicious signaling messages via compromised SS7 network components. Three attacks are discussed in detail: IAM flood attacks, redirection attacks and point code spoofing attacks. Depending on their scale of execution, these attacks can produce effects ranging from network congestion to service disruption. Methods for detecting these denial-of-service attacks and mitigating their effects are also presented.

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T. Kosloff, Tyler Moore, J. Keller, Gavin W. Manes, and Sujeet Shenoi "Attacks on public telephone networks: technologies and challenges", Proc. SPIE 5071, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement II, (22 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.500826

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