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You are here: Home -> Mobiles -> Informations -> SMS -> In Action How to Crash a Phone by SMS A corrupted SMS could crash your Nokia phone and shut you off from it. This was the claim made by Job de Haas, a security researcher with Information Technology Security Experts (ITSX). The Dutchman demonstrated the potential problem at a conference in November, where he reportedly crashed a Nokia 6210. The Register UK reports So now you can send an SMS and crash a mobile phone, so that the user is locked out. Job de Haas, a security researcher at ITSX, has adapted a program called sms_client, which sends an SMS message from an Internet-connected PC, in which the User Data Header is broken. During a presentation during the Black Hat conference last week, he demonstrated how a malformed message crashes a Nokia 6210 phone on its receipt. Once the message is received it is impossible to turn on an infected phone again.
The vulnerability is tied to the software used by a phone. The flaw affects Nokia 6210, 3310 and 3330 phones, de Haas has discovered, but not a Siemens phone he tried. Phones from other manufacturers are yet to be tested. More information about this problem can be found at The Register UK. |
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