A new vulnerability in phones Nexus of Google was first mentioned by PC World. Phones are vulnerable to a theoretical attack that uses This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. protocol Flash SMS. Sending massively to the target phone about 30 from these special messages, an attacker may cause the phone to restart or lose the network connection.
Bogdan Alecu, a systems administrator information technologys at the Dutch IT company Levi9, discovered the vulnerability and will present it in a talk at DefCamp, the international hacking conference to be held in Bucharest.
The Flash SMS protocol, also known as Class 0 SMS, is a category of text messages that appear on the recipient's screen but are not stored on the phone. They can be used for temporary or transient messages, like let's say to get a weather alert. The attack is largely theoretical, since the mission of multiple Class 0 SMS it's not as easy as spamming with a button we can send too many messages. While it does not seem to be easy to break a phone in such a way, Google will likely fix its vulnerability to its devices soon.
