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S. Schrittwieser:
"Guess Who's Texting You?";
Talk: Troopers12, Heidelberg (invited); 2012-03-19 - 2012-03-23.

Recently, a new generation of Internet-based messaging applications for smartphones was introduced. While user numbers are estimated in the millions, little attention has so far been paid to the security of these applications. In this talk, we present our experimental results, which revealed major security flaws, allowing attackers to hijack accounts, spoof sender-IDs, and enumerate subscribers.

mobile security, smartphones, messenger, SSL interception