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Hacking a Smartphone with a Baseband Attack is Very Tricky

Rabu, 9 Maret 2011
This is a new area of research. Until recently, mobile phone attacks had focused on another part of the phone: the programs and operating systems that runs on the device's CPU. By tricking someone into visiting a malicious Web site, for example, hackers could take advantage of a Web browser bug on the phone and start messing around with the computer's memory.     With baseband hacking, security researchers are looking at a brand new way to get into this memory. "[I...