SMS & CALL Forging/Spoofing- Hitech Menace (source taken from - www.sunnyvaghela.com) I have just shocked when i saw this story on Time Now.Sunny Vaghela,ahmedabad based 20 yeasr old engineering student claimed that he has found loopholes in sms & call technology.i have just searched on the internet to get his profile.. Sunny Vaghela is an an Electronics & Communication student of Nirma University.Sunny has won many prizes & awards at national level & international level.his major project includes sms based contro systems,voice recognition based control system,sms forging & call forging. According to Sunny Vaghela,SMS uses sccp address to send actual sender information to destination mobile operator during sms is routed through one sms gateways to another sms gateways..if one change the sccp address of the sms on the source sms gateway then sender id can be spoofed.According to him there are three ways to spoof sms,one can use web interface,software or http api to do the same. At last he said that his aim is not to spread this information but to aware people about this technology hazards. Pawan Duggal's(cyber Crime Experts) Comment on his story. It may not always be possible to track down the exact origin of the sms.When somebody sends sms in ur name then technically liability will be yours. Dr.Narend Amin's(ACP,Crime Branch) Comment on this story. there are three possible ways to stop this. 1. banned those websites which provides such facilities 2. Banned IP addresses of such services. 3. Some authentication should be implemented. This is all about SMS forging.. Call Forging:- Call forging is technology by which you can call any number from any number of your choice. (sources www.sunnyvaghela.com) Sunny vaghela has researched a lot on VoIp.he had presented his research papers in many technical symposiums & at corporate level also.he has also been invited by many reputed colleges of gujarat to give expert talk on Mobile Security. According to Sunny Vaghela,VoIP is the recent advancements as far as communication & internet telephony is concerned.but as far as security is concerns,there are many loopholes are exsisting in this technology, there are loopholes like call interception,denial of service attacks,injection of malicious code into compromosed equipments & one of the major loophole is caller id spoofing,Sunny said. there are may softwares available on the internet in which some modifications reflects caller id information of user when user triggers international calls using soft phone. Sunny Vaghela has also proved the same during live demostration on Times Now.hope goverment should waken up and take required rectifying measures to stop these technologies. Sunny said: someone has stolen his researched and came on media..it is his request to all the citizens of inida that please dont beleive on such hoaxters. (Source taken from www.sunnyvaghela.com)