FARK.com: (6846206) Researcher discovers exploit that could allow hackers to take over nearly any mobile phone and force it to make calls or send texts. Yes, your phone too, even if it DOES have a piece of fruit as a logo

		Researcher discovers exploit that could allow hackers to take over nearly any mobile phone and force it to make calls or send texts. Yes, your phone too, even if it DOES have a piece of fruit as a logo (news.yahoo.com)		27
		More: Scary, GSM, cell phones, Samsung Electronics, scams, telephone lines, texts

• • •

3819 clicks; posted to Geek » on 27 Dec 2011 at 11:30 AM | Favorite | share:

more» |

Get this fabulous T-Shirt and impress the methane out of your friends!

shirt it!

Share this link:

URL:

http://fk.cm/go/6846206

Bookmark:

Article Comments close

27 Comments (+0 »)

View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest

CravenMorehead

2011-12-27 11:34:33 AM

Even my Banana-phone? Oh noes!

Nefarious

2011-12-27 11:34:44 AM

Somewhere the Verizon guy is smiling

Titor's Time Machine

2011-12-27 11:35:19 AM

kumquat

StrikitRich

2011-12-27 11:37:49 AM

/obligatory

Gergesa

2011-12-27 11:38:12 AM

Bring it on!!! I am using a rotary phone!!!

Hawnkee

2011-12-27 11:45:12 AM

Heh, fark you all. My smoke signals can't be hacked, only DoS'd.

soopey

2011-12-27 11:46:29 AM

FTFA:The convention takes place just days after U.S. security think tank Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) said its website had been hacked and that some of the names of corporate subscribers had been made public. Activist hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility.

What the hell does this have to do with the price of bread and exploiting GSM network backdoors?

llfennell

2011-12-27 11:56:26 AM

Hey! Someone tied a second string to my tin can line!

/Don't give it any slack, hold the string TIGHTER, I can't HEAR YOU!!! (sigh, what shiatty reception)

bravian

2011-12-27 11:57:55 AM

CravenMorehead: Even my Banana-phone? Oh noes!

toastytech.com

Bag of Hammers

2011-12-27 11:58:53 AM

Well, if my iPhone gets a virus I'm sure it will be better than the virus the Android gets.

bravian

2011-12-27 11:59:57 AM

soopey: FTFA:The convention takes place just days after U.S. security think tank Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) said its website had been hacked and that some of the names of corporate subscribers had been made public. Activist hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility.

What the hell does this have to do with the price of bread and exploiting GSM network backdoors?

Before every major security con there is always a press release of new exploit that will destroy modern civilization and someone hacks a website. Journalists eat it up.

/this is not a repeat of every year for the last 15 years

LarryDan43

2011-12-27 12:01:22 PM

Gergesa: Bring it on!!! I am using a rotary phone!!!

I will phreak it with tones.

das

2011-12-27 12:11:50 PM

CravenMorehead: Even my Banana-phone? Oh noes!

Done in one....

rudemix

2011-12-27 12:16:23 PM

This can't be true! Ask anyone's older aunt, or great-aunt, Apple products can not be hacked by anyone, anywhere ever! It's true, go ask them!

Mikey1969

2011-12-27 12:26:06 PM

Bag of Hammers: Well, if my iPhone gets a virus I'm sure it will be better than the virus the Android gets.

Well, Apple will first deny it, then they will deny that the fix exists, because admitting that the fix exists would be the same as admitting that there was a problem, then they will admit the problem, but deny denying it, and then release the fix and deny denying that the fix existed...

Meanwhile, 10 different legitimate companies will have released a product that will fix this issue, and Android users will be protected...

dittybopper

2011-12-27 01:53:28 PM

LarryDan43: Gergesa: Bring it on!!! I am using a rotary phone!!!

I will phreak it with tones.

Bet you won't be able to phreak this:

www.vanyi.net

jabbedxorz

2011-12-27 01:54:53 PM

I thought fruit phones were the only phones that had viruses?

/Android is a fruit too, dammit!

lordargent

2011-12-27 02:08:48 PM

Any GSM phone

2.bp.blogspot.com

Eirik

2011-12-27 04:09:31 PM

Bag of Hammers: Well, if my iPhone gets a virus I'm sure it will be better than the virus the Android gets.

And ironically, my Windows Phone 7 is too obscure for anyone to bother writing a virus on it.

/Works better than my iPhone 3GS did
//Battery is losing life, just ordered a $10 replacement.

ChubbyTiger

2011-12-27 04:31:13 PM

dittybopper: LarryDan43: Gergesa: Bring it on!!! I am using a rotary phone!!!

I will phreak it with tones.

Bet you won't be able to phreak this:

Ah. Time for the social engineering, then.

MonkeyAngst

2011-12-27 04:37:51 PM

Wait... my AT&T phone can be forced to make calls? Someone show me how!

profplump

2011-12-27 05:54:04 PM

Years-old flaws in GSM still present, cannot be fixed without making existing devices incompatible. Film at 11. (Actual film, since that's what they were using when these flaws were discovered).

adenosine

2011-12-28 01:07:05 AM

Well, it's a good thing that iPhones usually operate over UMTS and not GSM.

antron

2011-12-28 03:18:14 AM

WAT

dittybopper

2011-12-28 07:37:00 AM

ChubbyTiger: dittybopper: LarryDan43: Gergesa: Bring it on!!! I am using a rotary phone!!!

I will phreak it with tones.

Bet you won't be able to phreak this:

Ah. Time for the social engineering, then.

The person has to be social for that to work, though, and us Morse people aren't social.

/I've got a face made for radio, and a voice made for Morse.

Dunit

2011-12-28 05:10:23 PM

Mikey1969: Bag of Hammers: Well, if my iPhone gets a virus I'm sure it will be better than the virus the Android gets.

Well, Apple will first deny it, then they will deny that the fix exists, because admitting that the fix exists would be the same as admitting that there was a problem, then they will admit the problem, but deny denying it, and then release the fix and deny denying that the fix existed...

Meanwhile, 10 different legitimate companies will have released a product that will fix this issue, and Android users will be protected...

Don't forget the point where (while somehow simultaneously denying the problem exists) they show how OTHER phones have the same problem too, only theirs is worse. Also the part where they say the problem is caused by the users holding the phone the wrong way.

And bizarrely this behavior will all be glossed over by the phones owners.

Priapetic

2011-12-29 03:23:21 PM

CravenMorehead: Even my Banana-phone? Oh noes!

Dammit. Seriously, done in one? Bah.

Displayed 27 of 27 comments

View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest

Redisplay/refresh comments

This thread is closed to new comments.