Black Hat hackers reveal major SMS flaw in smartphones

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Friday July 31, 2009

At the

Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner

, two security researchers, revealed

vulnerabilities in SMS systems

. The pair discovered

multiple SMS vulnerabilities in both Android and iPhone

systems. They're currently working to show the same vulnerabilities exist in Windows Mobile systems.

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Show Notes

- These flaws could result in a denial of service (DoS) attack that would knock a phone off the network.

- Similar flaws were found on both Android and iPhone devices.

- Apple did not immediately respond to a request to confirm they were working on a patch.

- Google did confirm that the Android flaw has been patched.

- Read the InformationWeek article

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