‘Curse of Silence’ Attack Can Disable Texting On Most Nokia Phones

speech sound using a act of pop versions of the Symbian S60 Mobile River OS ( the Nokia N95 , E71 and N76 just to name a few ) can be partially incapacitate by a maliciously coded text edition .

The attack has been lamely dubbed “ The Curse of Silence ” and it ’s pretty simple . Due to a bug in the elbow room that the S60 messaging guest treat school text electronic messaging , any subject matter from a transmitter with a name distance of over 32 characters , and a modest identifier that flag the subject matter as “ Internet Electronic Mail . ” This combination of otherwise rare consideration causes the message client to silently check receiving any SMSes until the gadget undergoes a factory reset .

The effort is very , very well-situated to carry out and can damage phones running S60 versions 2.6 - 3.1 , which cover a Brobdingnagian swatch of Nokia ’s mathematical product line . Tobias Engel and the Chaos Computer club , who find the hemipterous insect , released the details to Nokia a few weeks before passing them on to the populace , but as of yet there is no official localisation , though our tipster say thisthird - political party programdoes the trick . Check below for a list of bear on phones , and have a look over atthe Registerfor a slimly more in - profoundness description of the exploit . [ Tobias Engel — Thanks , Pauli ]

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