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New Smartphone Security Threat: Baseband Hacking

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p styletextalign justifyimg classaligncenter sizefull wpimage22017 titlephonesecurity srchttpblog.dialaphone.co.ukwpcontentuploads201101phonesecurity.jpg alt width300 height399 As smartphones become more and more like our computers, phone security is increasingly high on user8217s list of priorities, or at least should be. Our phones oftenhold important and sensitive information about our businesses, finances and our whereabouts and so if those phones are hacked into, those things are put at risk. One of the latest things to hit this area of mobile phone news is a new type of smartphone security breach called baseband hacking. 8211 a scary form of hacking which if you8217re not careful, could turn your smartphone into a device that actually spies on you.pp styletextalign justifystrongWhat is baseband hackingstrongpp styletextalign justifyBaseband hacking refers to the a process in which the hacker can actually hack into the baseband processors located on a smartphone. Basically speaking, the baseband processor is the part of the phone that is used to send and receive radio signals ie the part that communicates with the mobile phone network. And whilst most of us didn8217t even know what one is before just now, if it get8217s hacked, it could compromise your data.pp styletextalign justifystrongHow does baseband hacking workstrongpp styletextalign justifyBaseband hacking is a complex hacking process. First you have to create a phony mobile phone tower. Then you need to hack into the baseband processor of the phone that you want to target. Finally, you need to get that phone to connect to the phone mobile phone tower you created so that you can infect it with your malicious code. The technique can be used to turn the smartphone into a remote listening device, allowing the hacker to actually listen in on your conversations without you knowing it.pp styletextalign justifystrongQualcomm and Infineon chips causing problemsstrongpp styletextalign justifyOne of the biggest problems making baseband hacking to be an issue is a bug in the chips that are sold by Qualcomm and Infineon Technologies. The way that the firmware in these chips processes radio signals on most GSM networks is flawed, allowing potential hackers to get into those radio signals. If a fix can be found to correct the bugs in the chips then this may not be a significant mobile phone security threat.pp styletextalign justifystrongHow big of a mobile phone security threat is baseband hackingstrongpp styletextalign justifyBaseband hacking is a very new mobile phone security threat and was only recently discovered by RalfPhillipp Weinmann at the University of Luxembourg. Weinmann was able to use this new hacking method to break into both an iPhone and an Android handset. However, baseband hacking requires advanced tech skills that most mobile phone hackers don8217t have such as the ability to write malicious code tcompatible with the firmware of radio processors.pp styletextalign justifyBecauseof this, baseband hacking is a niche area of mobile phone hacking and may not turn out to be a huge problem in the long run. However, there are several reasons that it remains something to be aware of including the fact that it works across multiple device platforms and has the potential to work on all of the GSM networks used around the world by wireless carriers. If the problem does grow, a lot of people could potentially be affected.pp styletextalign justifystrongbr strongpa targetblank relnofollow hrefhttpblog.dialaphone.co.uk20110120newsmartphonesecuritythreatbasebandhackingMobile Phone Bloga

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