Peaches Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 July 30, 2009 1:53 PM PDT Researchers can attack mobile phones via spoofed SMS messagesby Elinor Mills LAS VEGAS--Researchers at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday showed how an attacker could spoof a type of SMS message that appears to be sent from the carrier or some other trusted source.This attack on MMS (multimedia messaging service) messages, a type of SMS message, could allow an attacker to trick the recipient into visiting a malicious Web site or ultimately do something else to harm the phone or steal data.The attacks work potentially on any type of phone that is MMS-enabled and operating on Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) networks, said Zane Lackey, a senior consultant at ISEC Partners, and independent researcher Luis Miras.Read more at cnet - http://news.cnet.com/security/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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