Fortune reports Verizon Media Group CEO Guru Gowrappan said a federal U.S. privacy law is needed to address concerns around 5G technology. As Verizon begins to roll out 5G across the country, it is also aware of the privacy issues users may raise about the increased amount of data their devices will...

Columbia University's Steve Bellovin sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the potential privacy issues related to 5G networks. Since 5G signals in the U.S. will have a shorter range, Bellovin said, more cell towers will need to be erected. Bellovin believes this gives companies the abili...

Academics have discovered security flaws within the 4G and 5G standards they claim can be exploited to intercept phone calls and track users’ locations, TechCrunch reports. The researchers said an attack they developed, named Torpedo, can take advantage of a weakness in a phone’s paging protocol. Af...

Speaking at the ET Telecom 5G Congress 2018, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha outlined key challenges facing the country as it works to develop fifth-generation services, The Economic Times reports. While Sinha said “India cannot afford to miss the 5G bus,” he called on the government to create “a legal...

Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Iowa have released a report detailing vulnerabilities within 4G LTE networks, ZDNet reports. The report highlights 10 attacks exposing weaknesses within the networks, which hackers can use to surveil on phone calls and text messages, take devi...