Is it risky to use bluetooth, SMS, or connect my phone to a PC?
As platform convergence continues, mobile threats will keep growing. With increased connectivity through BlueTooh, SMS, instant messaging, email, WiFi, USB, audio, video, and web, there are more possibilities for cross device contamination. For example, a smartphone can be affected by a PC vector via ActiveSync, the synchronization application in Windows Mobile. SMiShing, which involves taking the techniques of phishing by email and porting them to SMS, is expected to increase. Several variations of the VBS/Eliles mass mailing worm that also sends short message service (SMS) messages to mobile phones have already been discovered. So far, malicious SMS’s have been seen to: * have a URL embedded within the message instructing the user to invoke that link with the phone’s web browser * instruct the user to divulge sensitive information * tell the user to download and install software to their mobile phone that will compromise the device As in the traditional forms of phishing, this techni
