'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones 108
space_in_your_face writes "Research presented at a conference in Germany last week shows that phones don't even have to be smart to be vulnerable to hackers. Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications, a pair of security researchers were able to force low-end phones to shut down abruptly and knock them off a cellular network. The trick works for handsets made by Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Micromax, a popular Indian cell-phone manufacturer."
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Sending the "SMS of Death" has become common practice at theaters in order to finally force people's cell phones to stop ringing.
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Ah, the good old "put half of my post in the title, even though a lot of people skim past the titles since they're usually full of Re:re:re:re:re:". Oops.