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It is persumed that the phones can be modified and used in receiving SMS verification codes sent from banks:

criminals have already collected thousands of login details for online bank accounts in countries such as Germany and Holland where banks send a transaction authentication number (TAN) code by SMS to a person’s mobile phone in order to complete transactions.

Read the original post byUltraScan here:
http://www.ultrascan.nl/html/press_room.html#25.000%20Euro%20for%20your%208%20years%20old%20Nokia%201100

Read more about it here:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/553344-hackers-pay-top-dollar-for-old-nokia-1100-handsets

and here:
http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2922

An interesting news article about the work of BT (formerly British Telecom), Glamorgan University, Australia’s Edith Cowan University and Sim Lifecycle Services where researchers recovered data from handsets from mobile phone recycling companies:

Mobile phones can never be totally wiped clean of data

To get more information on the research at Edith Cowan University and its upcoming conferences please visit SECAU Security Research Centre’s website:

http://www.secau.org/

Here are some published refereed journal and conference papers to give you an idea of what to expect for the Edith Cowan University conferences in December:

- Valli, C. and A. Jones (2008). A study of 2nd Hand Blackberry for sale - World class security foiled by humans. Proceedings of the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing - SAM 2008 - The 2008 International Conference on Security & Management., Las Vegas, USA.

- Al-Zarouni, M. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Introduction to Mobile Phone Flasher Devices and Considerations for their Use in Mobile Phone Forensics. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Profiling Through a Digital Mobile Device. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007). Deleted Mobile Device’s Evidence Recovery:. Paper presented at the Media and Information-War Conference 2007, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.

You can register to attend Edith Cowan University’s conferences here:

http://conferences.scis.ecu.edu.au/

Hope to see you there

Where: Chicago, Illinois, USA.

When: 8-10 May 2008

What: World’s first conference to be dedicated to performing Mobile Device Forensics.

How much:  Registration prior to March 1, 2008: $250 and after $300USD

More details can be found on the official website:

http://mobileforensicsworld.com/

Speakers include:
Rick Ayers, NIST
Sam Brothers, CBP
Michael Harrington, MSP
Wayne Jansen, NIST
Gary Kessler, Champlain College
Ben LeMere, USCG
Kyle Lutes, Purdue University
Agents from Matrix Solutions
Kevin Mansell, Control-F
Rick Mislan, Purdue University
Lee Reiber, MFI
Amber Schroader, Paraben
Greg Smith, TrewMTE
Workshop Sessions in:
Cellebrite UME36
Cellular Data Resources
Control-F
CSurv Cell Site Analysis
DataPilot
Pandora’s Box
Paraben Forensics
Project-A-Phone

I have received many visits to this site searching for “Nokia Hidden Codes”. So, I decided to include some more Here is a list of codes and some links to get some more codes:

*#06# Gets you the Serial Number/IMEI.

*#0000# Gives you the software version (e.g. V 5.27.0 / 28-06-04 / NHL-10) The NHL-10 is important and makes your life easier when you try to use flashers!

*#2820# Gives you the Bluetooth device address
xx# - Quick contact access (xx = location number, e.g. : 17#)

*#62209526# Gives you the MAC address of the WLAN adapter, this information is only available on the new models (S60 3rd edition) which have wireless connectivity.

To get some more codes (some of which can do damage to your phone and/or data residing on it, approach the codes on these sites with caution:

• N-Gage codes: http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ngage/code/915353.html
• In polish (Patryk, please translate!): http://www.eplay.yoyo.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=79
• From GSM-Hacks: http://www.gsmhacks.com/forums/mobile-technologies/1429-codes-s60.html

Again, please exercise caution.

The “Cryptography, Law Enforcement, and Mobile Communications ” article in IEEE’s Security and Privacy magazine sheds some light on the use of flashers in mobile forensics as well as the use of tools such as XRY. The article also mentions the use and importance of Faraday cages.

Here is a link to the full article:
Link.

Thanks to Mike for the following two part series of documents on working with flashers:

Part 1:
http://mobileforensics.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/hex-primer-pt-1.pdf

Part 2:
http://mobileforensics.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/hex-primer-pt-ii.pdf

Make sure that you visit his blog to learn more about advanced mobile device forensics:
http://mobileforensics.wordpress.com/

Read what Prof. Rick Mislan said about the use of Phone Flasher Technologies and their role in the acquisition stage of mobile phone forensics and their use by students in digital forensics courses at Purdue University in the US.

http://www.physorg.com/news95611284.html