The 27th Chaos Communications Congress (27C3), a computer security conference held in Berlin, has offered several good mobile and embedded security talks in the past few days. SMS-based vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities in mobile phone radios, and laptop rootkits that infect peripheral chips instead of the main CPU were among some of the new research presented.[...]
[...]Collin Mulliner and Nico Golde demonstrate maliciously crafted SMS message attacks against a collection of feature phones.
Ilja van Sprundel describes how to reliably identify mobile phone OS versions using a maliciously crafted MMS message and a web server.
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann explains the process he used to discover vulnerabilities in the code running on Baseband processors.
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The conference continues
The Chaos Communications Congress is an annual event that ends the year with a lot of good research and food for thought. 27C3 ends this Thursday, but the talks I’ve cited, or any others you might be interested in, will be available online soon.
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