Smartphone mobility presents new security and management challenges for Enterprise IT. Because smartphones converge both voice and data their security threats are numerous and constantly changing. One such example is the widely used communications technology of SMS messaging. Although consumers think of SMS as “text messaging” for cell phones, SMS is a far richer protocol that can be used as an attack vector.

Trust Digital conducted a “Business Card Attack” on a smartphone by simply using a mobile phone number, which is commonly found printed on a business card, and an SMS message. This attack could easily happen as a ‘midnight raid’ by merely leaving a smartphone powered on for the night making it available to anyone with the tools and your phone number. And what data could be hacked? The options are endless…whatever is stored on the device.

Security threats are numerous and constantly changing. Learn what tools are available to protect smartphones now.

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Trust Digital is a company that offers innovative software products designed to protect smartphones against certain security vulnerabilities. The videos on this page will demonstrate the existence of one kind of vulnerability to smartphones, in which a hacker uses SMS messaging to remotely obtain unauthorized access and control over the data and features of the phone. Be advised that these demonstrations do not instruct viewers how to carry out this kind of hack, and the videos are not intended to provide information to enable hackers. Instead, this page is offered only as a public service to alert smartphone users of an existing security vulnerability. Trust Digital is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any company whose product is shown in these demonstrations, and all trademarks, product names, and logos are the properties of their respective owners. Trust Digital makes no guarantee that its products will prevent or stop all hacks, viruses or other security vulnerabilities in smartphones or any other computing devices. Please always use your smartphones and computers responsibility.