the joys of GSM devices you don't control, part 6438
Andreas Fischer
cyberfrag at gmx.net
Mon Jul 20 10:27:43 CEST 2009
Don't forget similar problems with other handheld devices:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/2138213/Amazon-Pulls-Purchased-E-Book-Copies-of-1984-and-Animal-Farm
Tom Yates wrote:
> i haven't seen any mention of this on here yet, and it came from the
> latest SANS newsbytes (v11 n56). it gave me a grin to think of yet
> another thing i don't have to worry about as an openmoko user, because my
> GSM device is entirely under my control, and i can inspect the source for
> everything i run, if i want to.
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> --Blackberry Update Found to Contain Spyware
> (July 14, 2009)
> A United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out a BlackBerry update
> that contains spyware capable of intercepting users email and text
> messages and sending them back to the server. The
> performance-enhancement patch was sent as a WAP Push message to 100,000
> users. Its spyware capabilities were discovered only after one user took
> a closer look at the update because it appeared to be draining the
> devices battery. The battery was being drained because the application
> was trying to register with a central server that became overwhelmed
> with the traffic, so the devices repeatedly tried to make contact.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/14/blackberry_snooping/
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/blackberry-spies/
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