Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, two cybersecurity researchers, have discovered how to completely hijack any iPhone through an SMS. They plan on releasing more details and potential how they do it later today at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.
They claim that they have the power to, using lots of burst of SMSs send to an iPhone, to completely take over the iPhone. They can then use the hijacked iPhone to send more SMSs and take control of more iPhones.
Apple have not yet fixed this rather serious security issue even though Charlie and Collin actually informed them of it over a month ago.
They have said that after Thursday afternoon (today) if you receive an SMS with only 1 single square character, it will crash your iPhone.
We suspect that Apple will fix this exploit in the 3.1 firmware update with is rumored to be released on the 1st or 2nd of September.
Post je objavljen 30.07.2009. u 20:09 sati.