The 3G4G Blog

Quantum computing often appears in discussions about 6G, but one area where its impact is already influencing 3GPP work is security. Many of...

Back in January 2011, I wrote about Enhanced Multimedia Priority Service , or eMPS, in 3GPP Release 10. At the time, the focus was on extend...

Cybersecurity conversations in telecoms often focus on IT systems, cloud platforms and enterprise networks. Yet beyond the data centres and ...

Telecom security rarely stands still. Each year brings new technologies, new attack paths, and new operational realities. Yet 2025 was not d...

The annual ETSI Security Conference returned to the French Riviera from 6 to 9 October, once again bringing together the global cybersecuri...

It's been a while since we created our security tutorial , back in 2018. One of the items we discussed in there were the fake cell tower...

At DEF CON 31 last year, Tracy Mosley, Vulnerability Researcher at Trenchant presented a talk titled "Nothin’ but a G Thang - The Evol...

It's been a while since I wrote about the ETSI Security Conference, which was known as ETSI Security week once upon a time. This year, E...

I had been meaning to add this session to the blog for a while. Some security researchers may find these useful.  At RSA Conference 2022 , B...

3GPP Release 17 introduced a new feature called AKMA (Authentication and Key Management for Applications), the goal of which is to enable t...