Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Radio system used by military, law enforcement exposed through major vulnerabilities

A security consulting firm revealed on Thursday that multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the Terrestrial Trunked Radio equipment that is used by military, law enforcement, and infrastructure operators across the globe. In a recent report, Midnight Blue, a security consulting firm, wrote, “After previously identifying several severe vulnerabilities in Motorola TETRA radios as part of our TETRA:BURST research, we were asked to scrutinize t…

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world–that made any communication secured with the algorithm vulnerable to eavesdropping. When the researchers publicly disclosed the issue in 2023, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which dev…

Police Radio Encryption Cracked: Security Risks Exposed – Archyde

Archyde The Encryption Stack is Crumbling: Why Secure Communications Are Less Safe Than You Think Over 30 years of trust in critical communication systems are being eroded by a series of… You can read the full story here: Police Radio Encryption Cracked: Security Risks Exposed.