'Curse of silence' flaw hits smartphones

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jan 4, 2009 7:33 PM EST

Article Source: zdnet.com.au

technology, nokia, mobile-phones, sms, dos, f-secure, chaos-communication-congress, tobias-engel

A denial-of-service attack that limits the number of SMS messages that can be received by Nokia smartphones has been disclosed and demonstrated.

Dubbed the 'Curse of Silence' by German security researcher Tobias Engel, the attack occurs when Nokia Series 60 phones are sent a malformed email message via SMS. Engel demonstrated the attack last week at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, according to a blog post by security vendor F-Secure.

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