Nokia S60 handsets blocked by ‘Curse of Silence’ bug – Take backup regularly

the is a bug doing the rounds that gives nokia s60 devices the ‘curse of silence’, whereby a hacker sends the nokia s60 handset a unique sms message containing a 32 character email address.

when the target nokia s60 handset receives the sms message it rejects all incoming text messages and emails, and the only way to fix the rejection is a hard reset of the nokia s60 device.

so, anyone using a nokia s60 mobile phone had better make sure they regularly backup their handset because you never know if you’ll receive the ‘curse of silence’.

below is a video showing the ‘curse of silence’ at work.