• Govt Activity
  • FCC TAC April 15, 2005
  • NCS Tech Note A Comparison of IEEE 802.11a and HIPERLAN/2 Wireless Networks
• Bluetooth
  • NCS Tech Note Bluetooth Personal Area Network Technology
  • Bluetooth Security Issues.
  • 3500 adopters
  • Piconets - one master and up to seven slaves
  • Scatternet - Piconets connected together with slave connecting nets
  • Risks
    • Hopping Along
    • Man in the Middle Attack
    • DDOS - battery draining
    • PIN attacks
  • Attacks
    • Bluesnarfing
    • Bluebugging
    • Bluejacking
    • Backdoor
• MAAWG :: Mobile Working Group deals with spam and viruses
• Hackers post Paris Hilton's address book online, CW 2/22/2005
• Hacker 'Gets More' From T-Mobile, Wired 1/14/2005
• Mobile phones: An ear full of worms, Infoworld 12/3/2004
• Webcast: Airborne Contagion: Effects of a Worm on Wireless Networking, NANOG 3/26/2004
• An Oscar Surprise: Vulnerable Phones, NYT 3/2/2005
• Viruses (hit both smart and dumb phones)
  • LibPng Exploit (2005)
  • Fontal (April 2005)
  • CommWarrior (March 2005)
  • Lasco (Jan. 2005)
    • Based on Cabir
    • Spreads by Bluetooth or file exchange
  • Skulls (November 2004)
    • Smartphones suffer Skulls attack, BBC 11/23/2004 Downloads and bluetooth - once infected, will attempt to infect other phones by Bluetooth
  • Mosquito Summer 2004 - bootlegged version of game called "mosquito" - would send enless text messages to premium rate numbers
    • Trojan. Secretly dials premium number while game is being displayed.
  • WinCE/Duts Virus (July 2004)
  • Cabir Bluetooth Worm Summer 2004 targeted Symbian OS users (June 2004)
    • Cabir worm wriggles into U.S. mobile phones, CW 2/22/2005
    • Mobile Phone Virus Found in United States, eweek 2/22/2005
    • Worm. Bug in replicator, can only spread once per activation. Spread via bluetooth.
    • New variants continue to arise
    • Symbian has 50% of cell phone market
  • Bluejacking (Nov 2003)
  • Siemens *35/*45 phones (March 2003)
  • Nokia 6210 (Feb 2003)
  • SMS Bomb (April 2002)
  • DoCoMo 110 Dialer (May 2001)
    • "911" Virus Japan Summer 2001 NTT DoCoMo imode service
    • "911" Virus Japan Summer 2000 NTT DoCoMo imode service
  • "Timofonica" Worm Summer 2000 - PC Worm virus. Affected spains telefonica GSM cell phone service by flooding SMS network with messages

Links

• CTIA CTIA-The Wireless Association™ Launches Handset Virus Working Group

News & Blogs

• United States Cell Phone Network Vulnerable To Attack, Information Week 10/7/2005
• Airborne Viruses: Real Threat or Just Hype?, Newfactor 7/26/200
• NTIA hosts a public wireless security forum titled Pharmers and Spimmers, Hackers and Bluejackers: Combatting Wireless Security Threats on July 20, 2005. The forum will focus on existing/potential security vulnerabilities of wireless communications; including the private sector and governmental response to those vulnerabilities., NTIA 6/29/2005
• Smart-Phone Trojan Poses as Anti-Virus App, eweek 6/14/2005
• Antivirus companies report first mobile messaging worm, CW 3/9/2005
• Man sentenced to 6 months for sending 911 virus, Infoworld 3/15/2005