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Hacking The iPhone
From: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:31:40 +0900
-----Original Message----- From: Monty Solomon [mailto:monty () roscom com] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:44 PM To: undisclosed-recipient: Subject: Hacking The iPhone The Black Hat Conference Hacking The iPhone Andy Greenberg, 08.04.07, 2:02 PM ET LAS VEGAS - Don't say you weren't warned, iPhone fans. Even when the prerelease fervor surrounding Mac's mobile messiah-phone was at its highest, security researchers were warning that it would be vulnerable to exploitations like data theft and hijacking. Last Thursday, Charlie Miller proved them right. In a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a gathering of cyber-security researchers, Miller detailed how he had hacked and hijacked the iPhone by exploiting a vulnerability in its Web browser. For iPhone owners, the talk wasn't as foreboding as it might have been. Apple had released a patch for Miller's exploit just days before. But Miller, a researcher at Independent Security Evaluators, says Apple's patch was only possible because he had informed the company of the vulnerability weeks before he presented it to Black Hat's hacker audience. And, he says, it would only be a matter of time and effort to find an equally powerful backdoor into the phone. Though there has yet to be any documented criminal hijacking of the iPhone outside of a lab, Miller says his research shows the relative ease of hacking smart phones, as well as Macs in general. He spoke with Forbes.com about the iPhone's vulnerabilities, Apple's short-lived patch and the company's undeserved reputation for building secure computers. ... http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/08/04/iphone-apple-mac-tech-cx_ag_0804mi ller.html ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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