Manhattan / Washington D.C. / Washington / New York City / Bellevue / Alexandria / /
Company
Sprint PCS / Computers-Communication Networks / Cellular Networks / Bulk SMS Clickatell SimpleWire START Corp. / MSNBC / Nextel / AT&T Wireless / Yahoo! / CNN / TMobile / LG / AT&T / Nokia / Sprint / Verizon Wireless / Google / Thomas La Porta Systems / Cingular Wireless / Bank of America / COSMOTE / Internet Infrastructure Security / START Corp. / AOL / /
Continent
Europe / Asia / /
Country
Canada / United Kingdom / United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
M&A / /
Facility
State College / Olympic Complex / /
IndustryTerm
mobile phone networks / telephony perspective / telecommunications industry / voice services / Internet attacks / Internet-originated SMS / Text messaging services / GRPS / wireless service / wireless providers / zombie network / mail services / employees with updates ranging from server / Internet-originated SMS attacks / Web Scraping As / Wireless Delivery The air interface / ineffective solution / target device / zombie networks / wireless clientele / targeted mobile device / search tools / targeted mobile devices / personal web pages / bank / web-based messaging portals / telecommunications / embedded devices / mobile devices / temporary solution / voice and data / voice and data communications / web scraping / extra equipment / above systems / search space / large enough zombie network / web interface limitations / purpose computing platforms / Internet BS The remainder / Internet-originated text messages / end devices / Internet worm / voice communications / offer solutions / wireless penetration / EDGE / wireless portion / empty network / telephone number formatting / adequate solution / phone networks / stock trader / access services / above solutions / external networks / unaffected wireless communications / location management / web interface / phone network / mobile phone network / representative devices / victim devices / software applications / search engines / diverse devices / wireless subscribers / voice-based phone services / web interfaces / wireless bottleneck / /
NaturalFeature
Traffic Channel / Standalone Dedicated Control Channel / Random Access Channel / Paging Channel / /
OperatingSystem
DoS / /
Organization
State College / Short Messaging Service / Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory Department of Computer Science / Short Messaging Service Center / General Packet Radio Service / Mobile Switching Center / The Pennsylvania State University University / /
Person
Patrick McDaniel / Alan Ralsky / Patrick Traynor / / /
Position
systems administrator / General / current HLR MSC VLR BS MH Obtain Subscriber Information Forward SM Forward / representative / IM mymobile.aol.com/portal/index.html ICQ www.icq.com/sms/ MSN Messenger / Messenger / Security and protection General / stock trader / /
Product
Palm Treo 650 Smartphone / Information Services CNN www.cnn.com/togo/ Google sms.google.com MSNBC net.msnbc.com/tools/alert/sub.aspx / Information Services / /
ProvinceOrState
Virginia / Washington / /
PublishedMedium
the HTTP POST / /
Region
Caribbean / /
SportsEvent
the 2004 Olympic games / /
Technology
mobile phones / Instant messaging / Random Access / operating system / mobile devices / encryption / PSTN / GSM / Bluetooth / flash / SS7 / cable modem / SMS / CDMA / wireless communications / MTU / PERL / mobile device / operating systems / TCP/IP / cellular telephone / HTTP / paging / SMS system / /
Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks William Enck, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel, and Thomas La Porta Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory Department of Computer Science a