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Sometimes there is so much “hack, hacker, hacked” news coming out of Black Hat every year that you can easily miss the cool stuff. The hacked iPhone idea is straight out of a movie (Morgan Freeman did it in The Dark Knight) but it could still work in real life so the threat is there.

Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
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That was a Nokia 5800 XpressMedia/TUBE that they used for the movie.
 
Wow, first it was the get rid of the "iphone" buzz from speakers when receiving phone call. Now, it's use an hacked "Iphone" to hack into ultra-safe buildings. In both cases its clear that the articles do not exclusively apply to iphone.

And the phone in batman was a nokia N85,which was just cleared by the FCC. It has varies names I believe depending on your locale.
 
iakona said:
Wow, first it was the get rid of the "iphone" buzz from speakers when receiving phone call. Now, it's use an hacked "Iphone" to hack into ultra-safe buildings. In both cases its clear that the articles do not exclusively apply to iphone.

And the phone in batman was a nokia N85,which was just cleared by the FCC. It has varies names I believe depending on your locale.
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It was not the N85. It was, as mentioned, the Tube (5800 XpressMedia)
 
Seems like a valid approach to me. Reminds me of the time a bank was thoroughly hacked by seeding trojaned USB thumb drives around the bank parking lot early in the morning before the workers arrived.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=95556&WT.svl=column1_1

Makes me think that you wouldn't even need to mail the phone! Just drop a few around the target building. Humans just can't resist the "ooo shiny!" impulse.
 
evilsofa said:
Seems like a valid approach to me. Reminds me of the time a bank was thoroughly hacked by seeding trojaned USB thumb drives around the bank parking lot early in the morning before the workers arrived.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=95556&WT.svl=column1_1

Makes me think that you wouldn't even need to mail the phone! Just drop a few around the target building. Humans just can't resist the "ooo shiny!" impulse.
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I hate to say it, but I'm sure I'd plug in a USB drive I found as well as look through all the pictures.
 
Yeah but then you have to figure FedEx and ups ship 1 day in state. If you ship out of state, more.

Figure 22 hours in transit.
Next you have to remotly start it, since if be damned if an iphone can last more than 12 hours in any sort of data transit mode.

You'd basically have to ship an iphone with a car battery.
 
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