Hack IphoneIn a presentation at the conference Black Hat, to be held next week in Washington, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, a researcher at the University of Luxembourg, will demonstrate this new technique to hack the iPhone and Android devices. During this demonstration, Weinmann says show how such devices can become a system of clandestine espionage.

“We will demonstrate how to use voicemail functionality found in most terminals to turn them into remote listening devices, “said Weinmann. According to this expert, may be entering the baseband processor of the mobile, using to send and receive radio signals when the phone communicates over cellular networks.

Weinmann said he has found gaps in the way the firmware used by the chips Qualcomm and Infineon Technologies, implemented in smartphones, process radio signals on the GSM networks used by most mobile operators.

Weinmann’s discovery opens a new area of research. So far, attacks on mobile phones based on another part of the devices: the programs and operating systems that run on your CPU. Ensuring that the user visited a malicious Web site, for example, hackers exploited vulnerabilities on mobile browsers.

More than three years after the result hacked iPhone for the first time, computer security experts believe they have found a whole new way to hack mobile phones. One way that could become a headache for Apple and the makers of smartphones based on Google’s Android software.

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