Filed under: Software , Apple , iPhone OS 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 Black Hat — and Black Hat’s this week. Sure enough, Miller and his cohorts plan to unleash details of the hack tomorrow, and while they claim they informed Apple of the problem over a month ago, Cupertino’s yet to make a move. We’d stop short of suggesting iPhone owners all turn off their handsets and take themselves firmly off the grid and into a completely disconnected underground bunker the moment the attack becomes public, but if it’s as serious as Miller claims, it definitely bumps up the pressure on Apple to get a fix out on the double — preferably before 3.1 drops. SMS vulnerability on iPhone to be revealed tomorrow, still isn’t patched originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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SMS vulnerability on iPhone to be revealed tomorrow, still isn’t patched
July 30th, 2009 
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July 30th, 2009 jedwan Filed under: Software , Apple , iPhone OS 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 Black Hat — and Black Hat’s this week. Sure enough, Miller and his cohorts plan to unleash details of the hack today, and while they claim they informed Apple of the problem over a month ago, Cupertino’s yet to make a move. We’d stop short of suggesting iPhone owners all turn off their handsets and take themselves firmly off the grid and into a completely disconnected underground bunker the moment the attack becomes public, but if it’s as serious as Miller claims, it definitely bumps up the pressure on Apple to get a fix out on the double — preferably before 3.1 drops. SMS vulnerability on iPhone to be revealed today, still isn’t patched originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Posted in att, engadget, htc, LG Tags: apple, att, black hat, culture, htc, iphone, network, security, security hole, securityhole, sms, text-messaging, textmessaging, virgin-mobile, vulnerability No Comments »Apple patching nasty iPhone SMS vulnerability
July 2nd, 2009 jedwan Filed under: Handsets , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , Apple , iPhone OS 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 Miller — we’re seeing yet another come to light. Over at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Mr
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