It shouldn’t be this easy, but apparently as few as 30 text messages sent to a Google Nexus phone at once is enough to make it restart or “act strangely”.
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DDoS through flash SMS makes Nexus vulnerable
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Published November 29, 2013
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Attackers could force phones from Google’s Nexus line to reboot or fail to connect to the mobile Internet service by sending a large number of special SMS messages to them.
The issue was discovered by Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Dutch IT services company Levi9, and affects all Android 4.x firmware versions on Google Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5. Alecu will present the vulnerability Friday at the DefCamp security conference in Bucharest, Romania.
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