engadget.com - 7/3/2009
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Given the hype surrounding Apple's iPhone, we're actually surprised that we haven't seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone exploit to take the world by storm happened right around this time two years ago , and now -- thanks to OS X security expert Charlie ...
hothardware.com - 7/2/2009
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hothardware.com —
A chink in the iPhone 's armor? Say
it ain't so! During a presentation at the SyScan...
conference in Singapore, security researcher Charlie Miller made clear that there was a significant vulnerability in the iPhone's SMS system, a flaw that could "allow ...
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iPhone SMS Vulnerability Found, Getting Patched
tech.yahoo.com - 7/2/2009
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tech.yahoo.com —
is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that
could allow an attacker to remotely install and run...
unsigned software code with root access to the phone. The attack in question exploits a weakness in the way iPhones handle text messages received via ...
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Apple Patching Serious SMS Vulnerability on IPhone by ...
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Because you can never have enough iPhone news... three more stories
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... down the clock to hit the lake or ocean or pavement in some manner, the intrepid bloggers of Engadget never take a vacation. Here are three* iPhone stories they posted today: Apple patent applications offer glimpses of haptic screens, RFID readers, fingerprint ID Oh man, haptics on the iPhone would be so sweet, and finally give us a little more than annoying clicks when typing. RFID and fingerprints? Well, that I'm not so keen on. Apple patching nasty iPhone SMS vulnerability Good ol' security maven Charlie Miller ...
iHacker Charlie Discloses iPhone SMS Security Vulnerability
The iPhone Blog —
... that would let attackers “run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.”
Apple, for their part, is hoping to have this patched before Miller’s upcoming Black Hat gig.
We hope so too.
[via Engadget. Thanks Travis for the tip!]
This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This ...
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In an ideal world, Mac and iPhone hacker Charlie Miller would discover vulnerabilities, inform Apple, and Apple would then patch them before they had any chance of being exploited “in the wild”.
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