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.
lovely, and my phone won’t let me block 2G.
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.
“Smishing” sounds like kiwi slang for playing Smash Bros
We were smishing in the shid!
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.
So is original phishing supposed to be over the phone? Like it’s the email game called emishing or something?
Nah phishing is a 90s term though probably coined in reference to phreaking. That started up in the 60s and by the 80s even the US had mostly switched to out of band signalling for their telephone system so none of the stuff worked any more.
Eintelefonmast!
c/randomGerman
fuckin smishers, comin over here, textin our mobiles
