Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

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Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

Post by *POTS* » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:01 pm

Found a serious bug that affects most Nokia Symbian Series 60 mobile phones.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/02 ... a_silence/
http://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/cos/s60-cu ... visory.txt
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Re: Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

Post by Scify » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:12 am

*POTS* wrote:Found a serious bug that affects most Nokia Symbian Series 60 mobile phones.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/02 ... a_silence/
http://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/cos/s60-cu ... visory.txt
I am safe. I have nokia :shock:
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Re: Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

Post by gopostal » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:35 am

I'm safe, I have none :D

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Re: Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

Post by *POTS* » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:31 pm

Scify wrote: I am safe. I have nokia :shock:
Actually even some Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Panasonic smartphones have Symbian S60 OS installed so... :twisted:
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Re: Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

Post by Scify » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:11 am

I don't do texting I am safe. It me long to type it than say it.
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Re: Nokia Curse of Silence SMS exploit

Post by *POTS* » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:13 pm

Looks like your model is not a smartphone, lucky you! It also supports Macromedia Flash Player 2.0; I wish I had a flash player on my phone :(
Anyway here you can find some tools to remove bad messages. Just in case.

http://fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2008-31.html
http://mobile.f-secure.com/downloads/trial/index.html
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