Denial of Service attack emerges for Nokia Series 60 smartphones.

[0iD]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9586953,00.htm

Dubbed the 'Curse of Silence' by German security researcher Tobias Engel, the attack occurs when Nokia Series 60 phones are sent a malformed email message via SMS. Engel demonstrated the attack on Tuesday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, according to a blog post by security vendor F-Secure.

An advisory made public by Engel on Tuesday gave details of the attack. After receiving a message from a sender with an email address of greater than 32 characters, Nokia S60 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 and 3.1 devices are not able to receive any more SMS or MMS messages. S60 2.6 and 3.0 devices lock up after one message, while 2.8 and 3.1 devices seize up after 11 messages.

[Jay]

Some people really do have way too much time on their hands.