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August 8, 2012

Android and Nokia MeeGo phones hijacked via wallet tech

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 12:19 am

by the BBC

More and more people are using NFC to make low value purchases via their phone. A skilled hacker has shown how to hijack a smartphone via a short-range radio technology known as Near Field Communication (NFC). Charlie Miller created tools that forced phones to visit websites seeded with attack software. The software on the booby-trapped websites helped Mr Miller look at and steal data held on a handset. NFC is becoming increasingly common in smartphones as the gadgets are used as electronic tickets and digital wallets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19010945#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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