How to Hack a Smartphone Using SMS

How many of you have or know people who have a smartphone? There's a lot of you, right? Well, depending on how most of you use those smartphones, there could be all kind of sensitive information stored on it, and that doesn't just mean sensitive personal information, but it could also contain all sorts of sensitive corporate data for work.

Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor of CSO, joins Meir Machlin of Trust Digital who demonstrates how to hack a smartphone using SMS. In these two tutorial video warnings, you'll see him begin his hacking of the smartphone and then watch him turn off the security settings remotely, leading to wiping out the handheld device. All you really need to hack a smartphone is a laptop.

PS: A smartphone is a mobile phone that incorporates a PDA.