Security Threats for Smart Phone Users

Computer scientists at Rutgers University have shown how a familiar type of personal computer security threat can now attack new generations of smart mobile phones, with the potential to cause more serious consequences. The researchers demonstrated how such a software attack could cause a smart phone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owners travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless.

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Education

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• Rutgers
• smartphone
• cell phone
• research

[fukutabe]

Neat, but who the hell uses an OpenMoko phone? Would be more interesting if you did this on an iPhone or Android, presumably on the jailbroken iPhone it's easy to write a UI-less daemon that listens from the mic, and it can just wait for an active WiFi connection (or use 3G, who cares) to send the recording to the spy...

[25445799]

oh damn it i have an iphone thats last thing i wanted to hear

[bbcpromoters]

@25445799 if man has made it then the college boys will change it, and it's only human race stuff like that which is getting their and take over, get Tony Blair's telephone number or David Blunkett's telephone number and letter listen to whatever is going on

[bbcpromoters]

@flyingdervish oh yes he can

[bbcpromoters]

Gmail.com

[bbcpromoters]

you are a very smart man send me an e-mail I work from private investigation company

[bbcpromoters]

I would like to buy for cash a copy of the program

[bbcpromoters]

I'm very interested in this software how do I get in touch with you

[happinesson]

hackers do no good to technology!

[sinblesser]

just use a phone lol, not a smart phone

[NizzBomb69]

thats why im glad i still have my dumb phone

[AiDz0r]

Its not the blackhat hackers who are inventing new methods to compromise rootkits to devices such as smart phones, its people who actually study in educational wise, and make it a fact. Yet somehow it gets leaked or motivated then hackers start doing it.