[Dailydave] Seeking more info on: Devastating mobile attack under spotlight

[Nicolas RUFF]

> There is no one vulnerability which will affect all these mobile
> phones. Non.

The vulnerability is not related to the phone model or version.

The vulnerability is related to the SIM card itself. All of them are
"SIM toolkit" compliant nowadays.

http://www.gemplus.com/techno/stk/


> While the data networks may not be very secure despite being controlled
> networks, there is crazy security done designed for the latest
> protocols. Also, the SIM card is also very secure.

Where did you get that from ... ?

AFAIK, there is at least one backdoor in SIM cards, that do allow data
recovery without knowing the PIN code (and this is not the PUK code). Of
course this has been designed for law enforcement people. Do you think
it's in the manual ?

Regards,
- Nicolas RUFF