Research Article

Insecurity in Public-Safety Communications: APCO Project 25

• @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-31909-9_7,
      author={Stephen Glass and Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy and Marius Portmann and Matthew Robert},
      title={Insecurity in Public-Safety Communications: APCO Project 25},
      proceedings={Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 7th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2011, London, UK, September 7-9, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
      proceedings_a={SECURECOMM},
      year={2012},
      month={10},
      keywords={communications networks wireless network security security analysis},
      doi={10.1007/978-3-642-31909-9_7}
  }
  

• Stephen Glass
  Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy
  Marius Portmann
  Matthew Robert
  Year: 2012
  Insecurity in Public-Safety Communications: APCO Project 25
  SECURECOMM
  Springer
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31909-9_7

             (P25) radio networks are perhaps the most widely-deployed digital radio technology currently in use by emergency first-responders across the world. This paper presents the results of an investigation into the security aspects of the P25 communication protocol. The investigation uses a new software-defined radio approach to expose the vulnerabilities of the lowest layers of the protocol stack. We identify a number of serious security flaws which lead to practical attacks that can compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of P25 networks.