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Hacking Mobile Phones

by Course Technology PTR

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Label:Course Technology PTR
Pages:320
Binding:Paperback
Publication Date:2005-12-07
Published By:Course Technology PTR
ASIN:1598631063
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Is your mobile phone safe from hackers? What would you do if somebody broke into your mobile phone and stole all your sensitive e-mail? What about if someone cloned your phone and made countless long-distance phone calls? What if your address book got stolen and your loved ones started receiving malicious phone calls? What if someone broke into your mobile phone and used it to transfer funds out of your bank account? Although mobile phones are valuable tools for exchanging photos with loved ones, getting the latest sports updates, buying and selling stocks, and even running entire businesses, they have also become more dangerous than you might ever imagine. Computer criminals can hack into mobile phones to intercept data; spread viruses, worms, and mobile Trojans; steal identities; and much more. How can you defend yourself against these attacks? Simple-educate yourself with "Hacking Mobile Phones," which The Hindu calls the "first book on the subject aimed at educating users against mobile phone-related security loopholes, vulnerabilities, and attacks." The New Indian Express declares Fadia's book "an excellent guide for all mobile phone users." Deriving data from actual research experiments, code analysis, and case and consumer studies, this book will open your eyes to security threats, secrets, and loopholes that until now went unnoticed.

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says nothing but the obvious - Reviewed on 2006-12-10
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4 customers found this review helpful.

1. Pathetic and wrong information.
2. Just the last page talks about GSM/CDMA stuff, leaving the core (vary basic functionality). Interesting part is that there have been tonnes of references towards finding IMEI numbering which is not applicable in the case of CDMA based handsets. Even that has not been clarified. So if I did not know it, I would still be continuing using *#06# in CDMA handsets, Oh !!!
4. There are no probabilities in Security, either that is high state or low, leaving absolutely no scope to go to tri-state mode.
5. No mention of intented audiences: Frankly speaking for technical people, its totally dump.
6. The author has used the word "basically" in every other sentence and overall usage has gone in thousands.
chemicalb4n3ed - Reviewed on 2006-04-13
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14 customers found this review helpful, 9 did not.

mr ankt fadia back again wid some more cut n paste tutorials n once again has he convinced the publisher to have his book published wat a joke.dis 17 yr ol button clicking script kiddie hacker aka security guru needs to stop copying garbage tutorials n then claim that their his own .wat a fake b$$$$$d,so is ankit fadia really the great hacker who he claims to be heres a quote from the l33t hacker EMPORER of the (IHC)

"Ankit fadia.ethical hacker? neither is he ethical nor is he a hacker !!!1 yr ago he begged and bragged to a Indian hacker
about his fake VSNL hacking skill !!its another matter , he was kicked out..lol" <<<<
i have nothing else to say this guy except dat dis guy is a total reject a loser
now for the fun part
VULNERABILITIES BY ANKIT FADIA = 0
BUGTRAQ ID'S BY ANKIT FADIA = 0
HACKING/ SECURITY TOOL BY ANKIT FADIA = 0
SOFTWARE / CRYPTOGRAPHY PATENTS BY ANKIT FADIA = 0
ALGORYTHMS BY ANKIT FADIA = 0
ANY OFFICIAL CITATION BY FBI/CIA/CBI FOR ANKIT = 0
ANY CONFIRMATION OF HIS SELF-CLAIMS = 0
ANY CONFIRMATION OF HIM DECRYPTING OSAMA MSG = 0
ANY TECHNICAL TUTORIAL OR BOOK BY ANKIT FADIA = 0
ANY ORGINALITY IN ANKITS TUTORIALS OR BOOKS = 0
SKILL LEVEL OF ANKIT FADIA = -0
PLAGIARIZED BOOKS BY ANKIT FADIA & INDIAN PUBLISHER =
1 OR 2 OR 3, THE F***er CO=AUTHORED SOME BOOK AND SAYS
ITS HIS AT FEW PLACES HE'S A moron.

newayz dats it peace to the real,Shoutouts EMPORER,c0bRA,nirvana
R00t access
ps:amazon customers dun waste ya hard earned money on dis crap.keep looking im sure ull find better books in the market but dun buy this one.

Getting the Most out of Your Phone, and Keeping it Secret - Reviewed on 2006-01-22
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4 customers found this review helpful, 5 did not.

We are accustomed to thinking of a telephone as a private device that we talk into and the voice comes out of the other end. Most people fail to realize that a mobile or cell phone is really a radio. When we talk, we are really transmitting what we say to a radio receiver somewhere. What we send out into the air, someone else can receive, someone who we just might not want to hear what we are saying. Also most people think of a cell phone as a telephone. But down inside, it is really a fairly powerful computer. Further, it is a computer that, by definition is connected to a communications medium.

All this means that cell phone security is a growing problem. Just like with any other computer connected to a phone line:

1. your phone is susceptible to being broken into and any information stored there stolen;

2. your phone is susceptible to viruses, trojans and all the other bad software that people might want to put on it;

3. your phone has built in features that the manufacturer keeps secret for its own use by service personnel and the like.

This book covers these areas in a casually written lively style. The book is broken down into two major sections. First is a general description area that is applicable to virtually all phones. Then there is a manufacturer by manufacturer breakdown of phones giving special points about each of them.
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