REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

www.vti.mod.gov.rs

TECHNIQUES FOR INTELLIGENCE DATA GATHERING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

SaŠA STOJKOVIć

Arbor Education Partners, Belgrade, sljstojkovic@gmail.com

IVAN TOT

Ministry of Defence of Serbia, Belgrade, totivan@gmail.com

FEJSOV NIKOLA

RT - RK, Belgrade, fejsov@sbb.rs

Abstract: With new types of services that provides their users multi-medial type of data transfer, mobile communication market and mobile phones market has expand even more in just couple of years. We are witnessing the continuos expand of number of users, mobile companies and applications that are using new type of protocols and data formats.   This growth in mobile communication users can provide a fair field for intelligence data gathering. The aim of this paper is explanation of key factors and possibilities in execution of data collection in open or encrypted communication. Also, this paper is explanation of practical usage of intelligence resources than theoretical explanation of mobile communications, protocols and security encryption measures.

Keywords: mobile, communications, intelligence, data gathering, data manipulation