Prototype drive-by attack shows mobile threat
As smartphones increasingly hold interesting data, attackers will target the devices using known vulnerabilities in common software packages.
One security researcher plans to show off just such an attack at next week's Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas.
In a presentation at the conference, Neil Daswani, chief technology officer for Web security firm Dasient, will show off a proof-of-concept attack that demonstrates a drive-by attack on an Android phone using a vulnerability in the Webkit framework that powers the common browser for the platform. The attack opens up a channel through which Daswani exploits a vulnerability in Skype to read information from the application and eavesdrop on chat conversations.
