ETSI releases first comprehensive global standard for securing smart phones

Sophia Antipolis, 24 November 2021

Today our smartphones and tablets are fundamental for citizens and hold a wide range of user data and apps. At the same time, security attacks have increased with malicious applications and network eavesdropping. To define security and assurance requirements for smart phones and tablets, mitigate potential risks and protect users, ETSI has released a world class standard called Consumer Mobile Device Protection Profile, ETSI TS 103 732. The specification identifies key security and privacy risks for user data and provides appropriate protection.

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ETSI Advanced Mobile Location standard now permits European smartphones to send caller location in emergency calls

Sophia Antipolis, 22 March 2022

Since 17 March all smartphones sold in Europe are required to comply with Advanced Mobile Location for emergency communications. AML was standardized in ETSI TS 103 625 by the ETSI technical committee on emergency communications (EMTEL) in December 2019. It is already helping emergency services dispatch the needed resources efficiently in Europe and worldwide.

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Sophia Antipolis, 12 January 2024

In a significant step highlighting the critical importance of security for mobile device users, the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) has certified ETSI's Consumer Mobile Device Protection Profile under the Common Criteria global certification framework. This represents the first certification by a national administration of a comprehensive suite of specifications for assessing the security of smartphones.

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There is a constant arms race between law enforcement and criminals, especially when it comes to technology. For years, law enforcement has been frustrated with encrypted messaging apps, like Signal and Telegram. And law enforcement has been even more frustrated by encrypted phones, specifically designed to thwart authorities from snooping.

But in 2018, in a story that seems like it's straight out of a spy novel, the FBI was approached with an offer: Would they like to get into the encrypted cell phone business? What if they could convince criminals to use their phones to plan and document their crimes — all while the FBI was secretly watching? It could be an unprecedented peek into the criminal underground.

To pull off this massive sting operation, the FBI needed to design a cell phone that criminals wanted to use and adopt. Their mission: to make a tech platform for the criminal underworld. And in many ways, the FBI's journey was filled with all the hallmarks of many Silicon Valley start-ups.

On this show, we talk with journalist Joseph Cox, who wrote a new book about the FBI's cell phone business, called Dark Wire. And we hear from the federal prosecutor who became an unlikely tech company founder.

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Arrangement of digits, letters and symbols on telephones and other devices that can be used for gaining access to a telephone network

Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and web addresses

Application of Recommendation ITU-T E.164 numbering plan for universal international freephone numbers for international freephone service

Subjective test methodology for evaluating Speech oriented stereo communication systems over headphones

Technical requirements and test methods for the universal wired headset or headphone interface of digital mobile terminals

Determination of sensitivity/frequency characteristics of local telephone systems

Operation of G.hn technology over access and in-premises phone line medium [Superseded]

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Principles for a unified format of price/tariffs/rates lists used for exchanging telephone traffic

Monthly telephone and telex accounts

Criteria for evaluation of the environmental impact of mobile phones

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ITU-T X.1231 - Supplement on technical framework for countering telephone service scams

Procedures for the identification and selection of common modes of operation between data circuit-terminating equipments (DCEs) and between data terminal equipments (DTEs) over the general switched telephone network and on leased point-to-point telephone-type circuits

a modem operating at data signalling rates of up to 28 800 bit/s for use on the general switched telephone network and on leased point-to-point 2-wire telephone-type circuits

Operational and interworking requirements for modems operating in the text telephone mode

Procedures for the end-to-end connection of analogue PSTN text telephones over an IP network utilizing text relay

Automatic answering equipment and/or parallel automatic calling equipment on the general switched telephone network including procedures for disabling of echo control devices for both manually and automatically established calls

Automatic calling and/or answering equipment on the general switched telephone network (GSTN) using the 100-series interchange circuits

A family of 2-wire, duplex modems operating at data signalling rates of up to 9600 bit/s for use on the general switched telephone network and on leased telephone-type circuits

A modem operating at data signalling rates of up to 33 600 bit/s for use on the general switched telephone network and on leased point-to-point 2-wire telephone-type circuits

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