| Apple News | Major iPhone SMS Vunerability Found | |
| Thursday, 2nd July 2009, 04:07 pm | |
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A major vulnerability in how the iPhone handles SMS has been found by security researcher Charlie Miller. During a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Miller announced the vunerability and warned of its capabilities. "The SMS vulnerability allows an attacker to run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator's network. The malicious code could include commands 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." According to HotHardware, Miller has made an arrangement with Apple giving them until the Black Hat USA expo in Las Vegas to fix the issue. Apple says they will have a fix ready "later this month." Read More  ---------------------------------------------------------- 7 comments [add] | 9542 views | Hide Entry |
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john wrote at 2009-07-03 04:27:09
That would have been a nice possibility of jailbreaking the 3gs. so we would have had two possibilities. But now apple will fix BOTH.
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Kyle Flanagan wrote at 2009-07-03 01:41:37
Much Ado About Nothing!
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Silvio wrote at 2009-07-02 19:56:09
Dang. In a non-malicious world, one could potentially have made a webpage where you simply enter your phone number to get SMS'd a jailbreak.
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n41 wrote at 2009-07-02 17:58:57
that text message sucks.
