Phone Hack Could Block Messages, Calls on GSM Networks

By tweaking the firmware on certain kinds of phones, a hacker could make it so other phones in the area are unable to receive incoming calls or SMS messages, according to research presented at the USENIX Security Symposium earlier this month. The hack involves modifying the baseband processor on...

Mobile Attacks Reign at Black Hat DC

ARLINGTON, VA–A number of researchers showed off interesting new attack techniques at the Black Hat DC conference this week, including one that enables an attacker to execute malicious code on handsets over the air. Perhaps the most interesting technique discussed at the show was a novel attack...

CVE-2010-3832

Heap-based buffer overflow in the GSM mobility management implementation in Telephony in Apple iOS before 4.2 on the iPhone and iPad allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the baseband processor via a crafted Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity TMSI field...

Heap overflow

Heap-based buffer overflow in the GSM mobility management implementation in Telephony in Apple iOS before 4.2 on the iPhone and iPad allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the baseband processor via a crafted Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity TMSI field...

CVE-2010-3832

Heap-based buffer overflow in the GSM mobility management implementation in Telephony in Apple iOS before 4.2 on the iPhone and iPad allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the baseband processor via a crafted Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity TMSI field...