C5IS reviews Wintego CatchApp, a solution that leverages a little-known vulnerability in WhatsApp's Signal protocol implementation. Wintego created an uproar in late 2016 when it was revealed that a product brochure made the claim that Wintego’s CatchApp solution offers the “unprecedented capability” to crack end-to-end encryption (E2EE) used by the popular messaging … [Read more...]
Inside China’s IMSI Catcher Boom
LongHope, Etross, Semptian, Foshan Amplitec, HK Medsourcing - the list of China’s IMSI catcher manufacturers goes on and on. Some are produced for foreign ISS vendors that stamp them with their own logo. Some are sold via the black market to sanctioned nations to circumvent user certificate requirements, when needed. But overall this a wide open bazaar for many classes of IMSI … [Read more...]
NetQuest OptiCop Interceptor: Policing Targets on 100G DWDM Fiber
C5IS reviews NetQuest, provider of OptiCop Interceptor monitoring solutions for DWDM fiber networks. Monitoring DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) presents a challenge familiar to law enforcement and government agencies vying to intercept target communications on 10GB/40GB and 100GB fiber optics: the high cost and complexity of using conventional methods to … [Read more...]
Airborne ISR: What’s Best – SAR, Electro-Optical/Infrared or Fusion?
MDA has a winning model for airborne ISR for military - fusion of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with electro-optical and infrared. A recent Business Week article on Capella Space synthetic aperture radar (SAR) titillated audiences with the promise military grade airborne ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) on any target at a Walmart price - US $5 … [Read more...]
CyberSeal Double Play: IMSI Catchers and Detectors
In industry panels on mobile interception, it’s not often that the name CyberSeal surfaces. As a subsidiary of Israel’s Magal S3, CyberSeal is but one component of Magal’s broad portfolio of physical and cybersecurity solutions sold to governments and critical infrastructure enterprises. But tucked away inside its giant parent company, CyberSeal is a hidden gem of special … [Read more...]