{"id":11562,"date":"2017-10-24T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/24\/are-smartphones-the-new-cyber-threat-vector\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:42:16","slug":"are-smartphones-the-new-cyber-threat-vector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2017\/10\/24\/are-smartphones-the-new-cyber-threat-vector\/","title":{"rendered":"Are smartphones the new cyber threat vector?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent events have brought to the forefront the vulnerability and threat vector smartphones present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe very things that make mobile devices such a productivity tool are the exact same things that make them a big target for espionage and for malicious activity,\u201d Kiersten Todt \u2014 president and managing partner at Liberty Group Ventures and resident scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security \u2014 said Oct. 24 in Baltimore, Md., at the annual MilCom conference hosted by AFCEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe saw most recently [White House] Chief of Staff John Kelly\u2019s phone getting compromised and by all accounts that was likely by a nation-state actor given what he wasn\u2019t able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mobile devices that are compromised, she said, can be exploited by adversaries to enable the microphone, allowing them to listen into sensitive conversations, access data that\u2019s going through the smartphones or be able to take pictures of a surrounding area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe typically have looked at smartphones as a peripheral device, but I think we all appreciate right now that smartphones we each hold are really the access points into both our personal and professional lives,\u201d Todt, who previously served as executive director of commission on enhancing national cybersecurity, said. \u201cThe data that travels through those devices is critical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the military context, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-targets-soldier-smartphones-western-officials-say-1507109402\">a report by the Wall Street Journal<\/a> earlier this month charted how Russia targeted the smartphones of NATO soldiers, with the goal of gaining operational information, gauging troop strength and intimidating soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personal devices brought onto the battlefield can be exploited allowing adversaries to geolocate positions and direct fires upon their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis might be the clearest example yet of how our reliance on networks and connected devices has created new threats to national security,\u201d retired Rear Adm. 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A Russian sailor <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/06\/sailors-selfie-gives-away-position-of-one-of-russias-best-ships\/\">broadcast the position<\/a> of his ship\u2019s previously unknown location to much of the world when he posted a selfie off the coast of Syria complete with the geo-tag active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military is trying to engrain best practices into the ranks of their enlisted soldiers with a recognition that it starts at the highest levels first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do we train our soldiers to understand the vulnerabilities and what our Ukrainian partners are realizing that by using your personal cellphone what that opens you up to,\u2019 Maj. Gen. Patricia Frost, director of the Army\u2019s Cyber Directorate, said during a panel discussion in Augusta, Ga., in August. \u201cIf we \u2014 this is the leader level \u2014 will not recognize the vulnerabilities that we\u2019re bringing into the environment and the threat vector that we\u2019re introducing, how do we expect our soldiers at the most junior level to be disciplined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She noted that they might being to use the National Training Center as a teaching moment, saying if X number of soldiers brought their personal devices to NTC, leaders could say they targeted them, brought indirect fires on their position as to demonstrate the threat vector they\u2019ve introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have been at forums at field grade and higher level where we\u2019ve told everyone we\u2019re going to go classified, leave your cellphones in a designated place and we scan the room and more than 50 percent to 75 percent still brought their cellphone into the room,\u201d Frost said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now we have to appreciate the mobile devices are an endpoint priority equal to \u2014 or I would argue even more so \u2014 important than the laptops and the desktops that we each use,\u201d Todt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeing able to develop the policies around protecting the information on our mobile devices and importantly protecting the data is what has to happen. 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