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Just got back from a two weeks vacation in India and I have leared there is a Ikee.B virus/worm running around that could turn your iPhones into botnet/zombies and has already infected thousands of iPhones users in different countries including Australia, Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal and Brazil. As per latest information shared by Mashable the malicious [...]

Did you jailbreak your iPhone? If you did, chances are, your iPhone is hackable. As shown in the screenshot below, a Dutch hacker was able to enter a jailbroken iPhone via SSH. This incident highlights the fact that jailbreaking removes the security layer for the iPhone. While he apparantly didnt acually swipe personal information or [...]

Yet another security flaw has been brought to the attention of iPhone users, this time found out by Matt Janssen. This flaw allows a hacker to view all deleted emails on the device.This bug was discovered by searching emails using the OS 3.0 Spotlight feature. Video of the iPhone Spotlight Feature Digging Up Deleted Emails: [...]

The new iPhone OS 3.0.1 does not after all solve the problems of vulnerability. Apple has fixed the bug discovered by Miller, but MuscleNerd, (a member of DevTeam), received a demonstration of a new hack by Luis Miras and Zane Lackey, who can also be applied on the new iPhone OS 3.0.1. This is an [...]

Who said Apples don’t get virusses? Researchers Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller have proven at the Black Hat security conference that by merely sending a special SMS message, an attacker can take over your phone entirely: turn on or off the camera, send the contacts list, dial out, steal data, send text messages, etc etc [...]

Remember that alleged SMS-based security hole on the iPhone allowing evil-doers to execute arbitrary code and do all sorts of nasty crap like create an army of mobile zombies ready and willing to execute a DoS attack? The guy who found it, security expert Charlie Miller, said that he’d reveal the details of it at [...]

While playing around with a couple of applications today, I realized that my iPhone was showing up in Cyberduck over Bonjour, something I’d somehow managed to not figure out until now ! Now I use BossPrefs to turn off SSH when I’m not using it, but I know a lot of people won’t. This got [...]

There’s a lot of “could” and “might” in this story, folks, so keep that in mind.  A group of iPhone developers has identified a bug in the current iPhone firmware that could lead to an exploit of the Default.png file. Oh my! The flawless iPhone, the pride and soul of Apple geeks all over the [...]

Back in July, Aviv Raff, told Apple about two iPhone issues that he considered to be vulnerabilities. Updates 2.0.1, 2.0.2. and 2.1 came and went with no fix, so Mr. Raff went public with the details. All that Apple has said, according to Mr. Raff, a security researcher in Israel is that they’re still “working [...]