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Short Messaging Service is one of the most widely used services of mobile telephony. As we will see in this chapter, there are threats to its Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Even worse, the advent of more advanced capabilities and services, including mobile shopping and mobile banking transactions, which largely rely on the ability to send and receive short text messages to authenticate the user, will raise even stronger security concerns.

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Androulidakis, I.I. (2016). SMS Security Issues. In: Mobile Phone Security and Forensics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29742-2_5

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