Posts Tagged ‘sms’

Android 4.2 still vulnerable to SIM Toolkit attack

A couple of hours ago the update to Android 4.2 has been made available. One of the new security features is that it also protects from the premium SMS when an app tries to send them. How Android knows about premium messages is that it reads an XML list where each country has it’s own [...]

avast Mobile Security is sending SMS without user knowledge

UPDATE: I have been contacted by Avast to clarify this SMS issue and I’m working with them to fix this. I think I found the bug and, if proven, it’s something really funny. I hope I’ll be able to update you soon as I am leaving to EUSecWest conference. UPDATE2: It was not the bug [...]

How to protect from SIM Toolkit attack

SIM Toolkit

After all the media coverage of the subject (quite impressive) a lot of talks started, specially on Niebezpiecznik site from Poland, about how to protect from such attacks. Here are some good ideas: 1. On phones with Android you should remove the STK.apk application – right, but what if your phone is not rooted? Also [...]

SIM Toolkit Attack

Bogdan Alecu @ DeepSec 2011

Hi all, I must say it was a real pleasure to attend the DeepSec 2011 edition. I’ve met a lot of interesting people and all the talks were great. Since it was my first time I held an international talk with such large audience, I was a little bit excited, but no matter what, I [...]

SIM Toolkit Attack on DeepSec 2011

PWNED m-sec.net

This is going to be my talk on DeepSec 2011. You may read more about it in an article on the DeepSec blog. There are a lot of good talks so my suggestion for you is to register for the conference and attend the talks. Tweet

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