March 5th, 2010 by lhaasYet more evidence that the forensics community needs to be focusing on mobile devices. Join viaForensics’ Open Source Android Forensics project.
Computer scientists at Rutgers University this week are demonstrating ways that rootkits can attack new generations of smart mobile phones.
The researchers… are showing how a rootkit could cause a smartphone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless — all without the user’s knowledge.
“Smartphones are essentially becoming regular computers,” says Vinod Ganapathy, assistant professor of computer science in Rutger’s; School of Arts and Sciences. “They run the same class of operating systems as desktop and laptop computers, so they are just as vulnerable to attack by [malware].”
