SMS Attack Can Affect Android & Windows Mobile Phones as Well as iPhones

It looks like the iPhone is not the only phone in peril of an SMS attack…(from Technologizer)…

Your GSM Phone is (Probably) Vulnerable to Malicious Text Messages

The article says that the exploit discussed for the past few days as targeting the iPhone can actually may also be able to attach other GSM based phones. In the US, this means phones used with AT&T and T-Mobile. Verizon and Sprint use a wireless voice technology named CDMA.

Technologizer reports that the demo of this exploit at the Black Hat conference going on this week showed a single iPhone app that could attack iPhones as well as Windows Mobile and Android based phones. Ouch!

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