Thursday, November 29, 2001

The Web Never Forgets The Web Never Forgets, David Colker, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 2001 Government agencies have tried to remove sensitive information, only to discover that copies have proliferated and they're virtually impossible to eradicate. Within days of the 11 Sep attacks, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry rushed to pull a suddenly sensitive report from its Web site titled "Industrial Chemicals and Terrorism." The agency eliminated all traces of the document and its description of sources for home-brew nerve gases and improvised explosives. But on the World Wide Web, almost nothing truly dies. [...] http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000094419nov27.story [Monty Solomon via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 80] 0:00 # G!

How to crash a phone by SMS How to crash a phone by SMS By John Leyden Posted: 28/11/2001 at 18:20 GMT So now you can send an SMS and crash a mobile phone, so that the user is locked out. Job de Haas, a security researcher at ITSX, has adapted a program called sms_client, which sends an SMS message from an Internet-connected PC, in which the User Data Header is broken. During a presentation during the Black Hat conference last week, he demonstrated how a malformed message crashes a Nokia 6210 phone on its receipt. Once the message is received it is impossible to turn on an infected phone again. ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23080.html [Monty Solomon via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 80] 0:00 # G!