ReCRED supporting the University of Piraeus team in TADHack Athens 2017

The Department of Digital Systems, of the University of Piraeus, won the 3rd location prize in TADHack Athens 2017, that took place at the end of September (22-24 September and 29 September – 1 October). The postgraduate students Papadopoulos Polymenis, Karapetsas Sotirios and the undergraduate students Kompolis Marios and Evaggelou Nikos, represented UPRC in the competition with the project “SS7 attacks on Telestax’s JSS7 SMSC Gateways”, which focused on telecom security, demonstrating attacks on the SS7 network and intercepting SMSs.

The Telecom Application Development – TADHack, the largest telecoms-focused hackathon worldwide, is the global meeting place for people who want to learn, share, code and create using the tools and technologies available in telecommunications. Aiming at building an ecosystem focused on telecom application development, TADHack brings together businesses, developers, non-coders and anyone who is interested in using telecom capabilities in their applications, to solve local and global problems.

The carried-out R&D task was supported by ReCRED, with the intend to motivate more undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus that study information security, to engage further with telecom security tools and technologies.

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