[aklug] Re: smart phone security

--- On Mon, 10/4/10, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:

> barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> asked:
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> Kurt,
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> Do you have any links to some of this stuff for us folks
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> paying as careful attention? :)
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I just finished a class paper on mobile devices, and this would have been a=
 great addition to our security discussion. When Kurt confirmed the vulner=
ability, I did some looking around, and came up with these stories:

July 2007 - Malicious Web site allows commands to run remotely (not sure wh=
at the mechanism was, demonstrated at Black Hat.)
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/mobilephones/0,39050603,62029291,00.htm =20

July-August 2009 - SMS vulnerability with similar effects (again, demonstra=
ted at Black Hat.)
http://www.macworld.com/article/141507/2009/07/smsvulnerability_iphone.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/142179/2009/08/iphone_sms_security.html=0A=
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Received on Mon Oct 4 14:11:59 2010