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Crashing A Nokia Phone Via SMS

Posted by Hemos on from the doesn't-matter-to-me dept.

Atryn writes "An article at the Register reports that a recent Black Hat conference presenter demonstrated how to crash Nokia cell phones using malformed headers in SMS messaging protocols. Though the SIM card can be recovered by moving to a new phone, this is perhaps an interesting preview of security issues as data goes wireless." Of course, when you live in the US, where your wireless services are about eight years behind the curve, this is less of an issue. *grin*

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  1. normally I don't react like this... by sluggie · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    2001-11-29 15:40:51 simple SMS kills cell phones (articles,security) (rejected)

    sorry, I know that someone is going to mod me down for this... BUT THAT IS NOT FAIR!!!

    If someone with the same expierence reads this please reply or tell me about your unfair rejection by email me(at)sluggie.org.

    Thanks!
    sluggie out.