He installed a fake antenna? like a fake cellular radio tower? how is it possible that phones just randomly trust this antenna? they explain very little in the article.
Short answer: security through obscurity
I’ve always wanted to broadcast encrypted signals from a ham radio out of the back of a van parked next to a nuclear power station.
Smishing is a phishing cybersecurity attack carried out over mobile text messaging. It’s also known as SMS phishing.
I had never heard that term before. Is it just a UKism, or am I one of today’s lucky 10,000?
Not just UK. It’s a stupid term that organizations use in cybersecurity trainings but no one else uses.
Yeah, I had to do a security cert last year and it had a bunch of made up sounding crap like that.
It feels like one of those where the people that have expertise enough to name new things are not experts in naming things.
Developers are notoriously bad at naming anything. Cybersecurity experts are generally developers.
I encountered Quishing the other day - the inadvertent scanning of QR codes that take a browser to a malformed URL or site with malware embedded.
Back in my day, it was just called “being a bit dense”, especially as most cameras/QR readers will offer you a prompt to go to a website first.
never heard that term before, but just like all other logical things i learn about, it checks out, and i accept it
“Smishing” sounds like kiwi slang for playing Smash Bros
We were smishing in the shid!
At the beginning of Smash Bros Ultimate, some people jokingly tried to make “Smush” a thing (since the previous, fourth game, officially Super Smash Bros for 3DS/for Wii U, was often referred to as Sm4sh for short).
When I first read they were sending smishing texts I thought hey this is neat, some kind of kink that I can spend the day learning about, but then I read about the sms phising thing and was disappointed.
I’ve worked in IT for 15 years and it’s the first time I’ve heard SMS phishing condensed to smishing. But I specialize in servers and server security, so I’m not too surprised it’s a thing.
Open Source Security Podcast with Josh Bresher and Kurt Sigfried. It’s a pretty good source of news and discussion from a sysadmin perspective.
fuckin smishers, comin over here, textin our mobiles
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