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Malicious caller identification, introduced in 1992 as Call Trace, [1] also called malicious call trace or caller-activated malicious call trace, is activated by the vertical service code *57 ("star fifty-seven"), and is an upcharge fee subscription service offered by telephone company providers which, when dialed immediately after a malicious call, records metadata for police follow-up.
In telecommunications, call tracing is a procedure that permits an entitled user to be informed about the routing of data for an established connection, identifying the entire route from the origin to the destination. There are two types of call tracing. Permanent call tracing permits tracing of all calls.
Verizon said its network is fully restored, returning mobile phone service to customers across the country after an outage on Monday that left many people unable to make or receive calls for much ...
A virtual base transceiver station (VBTS) [5] is a device for identifying the temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI), international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of a nearby GSM mobile phone and intercepting its calls, some are even advanced enough to detect the international mobile equipment identity (IMEI).
Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed.
MAINWAY is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) containing metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the largest telephone carriers in the United States, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Verizon order is part of a controversial data program, which seeks to stockpile records on all calls made in the U.S., but does not collect information directly from T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, in part because of their foreign ownership ties. [94]
Cellphone surveillance (also known as cellphone spying) may involve tracking, bugging, monitoring, eavesdropping, and recording conversations and text messages on mobile phones. [1] It also encompasses the monitoring of people's movements, which can be tracked using mobile phone signals when phones are turned on.