By The Guru on January 28, 2009
A while back, you may remember the big hubbub over the ‘Curse of Silence‘ exploit that allowed an attacker to disable the messaging capabilities on Nokia’s S60 3rd Edition-powered smartphones, by sending a carefully crafted message. The attack did not hurt the rest of the phone, and was easily remedied with a hard reset. Nokia [...]
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By The Guru on December 30, 2008
It’s amazing to me that F-Secure and other ‘security’ applications for S60 still exist. Who’s buying these apps, and why? Today’s episode is dubbed ‘the Curse of Silence‘, and reads just like any other scary story, told around a campfire with a flashlight facing the sky. According to this post at F-Secure’s site, at the [...]
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