Document Details

Document Type : Thesis 
Document Title :
IMSI Catcher Detection Method for Cellular Networks
طريقة لاكتشاف خاطف هوية مستخدم الشبكة الخلوية
 
Subject : Faculty of Computing and Information Technology 
Document Language : Arabic 
Abstract : Mobile communications are not trustful as many people think about it. The IMSI catcher is one of the most effective threat that can compromise the security of mobile communications. It is a radio device that acts as a fake cellular base station allowing near mobiles to connect to it instead of legitimate base station. This type of attack is called man in the middle attack (MITM). The IMSI catcher can do almost everything after being connected to its victims, such as eavesdropping calls, intercepting SMS messages, locating phone’s location and so many. It is widely used by government agencies legally to track criminals and terrorists, but nowadays it could be used by unauthorized individuals and criminal organizations for different purposes. Several of countermeasures against this threat have been proposed by many researchers but most of them are reliant on real base station features to expose fake base stations. Those features are limited and could be easily imitated by IMSI catcher device. This thesis presents a new IMSI catcher detection method, which relies on location area features to build a unique fingerprint for each area that makes it unique as compared to most of the existing schemes. 
Supervisor : Dr. Riaz Ahmed Shaikh 
Thesis Type : Master Thesis 
Publishing Year : 1440 AH
2019 AD 
Added Date : Tuesday, July 16, 2019 

Researchers

Researcher Name (Arabic)Researcher Name (English)Researcher TypeDr GradeEmail
حمد مرزوق الرشيديAlrashede, Hamad MarzoqResearcherMaster 

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