Fingerprinting Your Devices
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
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How to Protect Your Mobile Device From Cyber Criminals
Your mobile phone's baseband hardware and software is very simply a built-in modem, usually implemented as a sub component of what's known as the phone's SOC short for system on a chip. As you can imagine, this means that your mobile device isn't just at risk from cyber criminals via bugs in the main operating system or one of the apps you use - it also includes security vulnerabilities in the baseband subsystem. Even devices that are in all obvious respects quote unquote the same might turn out to have different baseband chips depending on which factory assembled them or which market they are sold into. The official description of the bugs that were found here is ugly, but in plain English,
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