You knew that once a popular device came out, everyone will try to punch holes in it. According to the New York Times, the 'Independent Security Evaluators' has found a hole in the iphone that once exposed, allows complete control.
Principal security expert and ex-NSA agent Dr. Charles A. Miller stated "Once you did manage to find a hole, you were in complete control."
Apparently just loading a simple Web page without any other user intervention is enough to gain complete control.
John Schwartz from the NYT states "the site injected a bit of code into the iPhone that then took over the phone. The phone promptly followed instructions to transmit a set of files to the attacking computer that included recent text messages -- including one that had been sent to the reporter's cellphone moments before -- as well as telephone contacts and e-mail addresses."
From there they can use your iPhone to make calls, without any user intervention.
Scary.
Hit the jump for the rest of the article, and see below for the video. [New York Times via Gizmodo]
1 comment:
Kinda looks like the popularity thing really is in proportion to hacks found and other bad stuff.
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