31 July 2009 0 Comments

IPhone SMS Exploit Patch

IPhone SMS Exploit Patch

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 [...]

30 July 2009 0 Comments

iPhone Security Threat Via SMS

iPhone Security Threat Via SMS

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 [...]