Researcher Wows Black Hat With NFC-based Smartphone Hacking Demo

alphadogg writes "At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, Accuvant Labs researcher Charlie Miller showed how he figured out a way to break into both the Google/Samsung Nexus S and Nokia N9 by means of the Near Field Communication (NFC) capability in the smartphones. NFC is still new but it's starting to become adopted for use in smartphone-based purchasing in particular. The experimentation that Miller did, which he demonstrated at the event, showed it's possible to set up NFC-based radio communication to share content with the smartphones to play tricks, such as writing an exploit to crash phones and even in certain circumstances read files on the phone and more."

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[Opportunist]

Damn, you beat me to it and cashed in the insightful mods.

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[sjames]

Even better, all we need to do is come up with a way to use NFC to share music and movies. Then the *AA won't rest until it's dead.