Attacks on Public Telephone Networks: Technologies and Challenges

T. Kosloff; T. Moore; J. Keller; G. Manes; S. Shenoi

doi:10.1117/12.500826

Attacks on Public Telephone Networks: Technologies and Challenges

T. Kosloff
, T. Moore
, J. Keller
, G. Manes
, S. Shenoi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	72-83
Number of pages	12
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5071
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.500826
State	Published - 2003

Keywords

Critical infrastructure protection
Public telephone network security
SS7 attack mitigation strategies
SS7 messaging attacks
Signaling System 7 (SS7)

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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