New SMS Hacking Tool Coming at Black Hat

From DarkReading (Kelly Jackson Higgins)

Texting just keeps getting riskier: Researchers at next month’s Black Hat USA in Las Vegas will demonstrate newly discovered threats to mobile phone users, as well as release a new iPhone application that tests phones for security flaws.

“We set out to create a graphical SMS auditing app that runs on the iPhone,” says Luis Miras, an independent security researcher. The tool can test any mobile phone, not just the iPhone, for vulnerabilities to specific exploits that use SMS as an attack vector.  Read the full story [darkreading.com]

From DarkReading (Kelly Jackson Higgins)

Texting just keeps getting riskier: Researchers at next month’s Black Hat USA in Las Vegas will demonstrate newly discovered threats to mobile phone users, as well as release a new iPhone application that tests phones for security flaws.

“We set out to create a graphical SMS auditing app that runs on the iPhone,” says Luis Miras, an independent security researcher. The tool can test any mobile phone, not just the iPhone, for vulnerabilities to specific exploits that use SMS as an attack vector.  Read the full story [darkreading.com]

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