Memory Support Through Pervasive and Mobile Systems

Migliardi, Mauro; Gaudina, Marco

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35016-0_9

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“…A second example is the adoption of tablet PCs (Apple iPad) by the Chicago hospital and the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Finally, several research projects are focusing on the deployment of health-care services onto the tablet PC platform with widely goals from simple access to medical records [14], to reminders for medication intake [30], to decision support systems [22], to automatic recognition of pathological states [25], to systems for memory support [23]. For these reasons, mobile networks security analysis should emphasize availability along with confidentiality and integrity.…”

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A Denial of Service Attack to GSM Networks via Attach Procedure

Gobbo

Merlo

Migliardi

2013

Security Engineering and Intelligence Informatics

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Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) keep a strict control over users accessing the networks by means of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). This module grants the user access to the network, by performing the registration and authentication of the user's device. Without a valid Subscribe Identity Module (SIM) module and a successful authentication, mobile devices are not granted access and, hence, they are not allowed to inject any traffic in the mobile infrastructure. Nevertheless, in this paper we describe an attack to the security of a mobile network allowing an unauthenticated malicious mobile device to inject traffic in the mobile operator's infrastructure. We show that even with devices without any SIM module it is possible to inject high levels of signaling traffic in the mobile infrastructure, causing significant service degradation up to a full-fledged Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

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