Countering SMS Attacks: Filter Recommendations
Nico Golde, Collin Mulliner · DepositOnce · 2011
In this paper we summarize the findings of our investigation on security issues of Short Message Service (SMS) clients on mobile phones. We realized that firmware updates will not be available on a large scale and thus see filtering of SMS traffic as the only possible counter measure against large scale attacks based on SMS messages. This paper presents our ideas on filtering SMS features by the mobile network operators.