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iPhone gets iPwned by simple web-page hack

submitted by sometimes

1 decade 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

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Miller, a former employee of the National Security Agency who has a doctorate in computer science, demonstrated the hack to a reporter by using his iPhone’s Web browser to visit a Web site of his own design.

Once he was there, 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.

“We can get any file we want,” he said. Potentially, he added, the attack could be used to program the phone to make calls, running up large bills or even turning it into a portable bugging device.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/technology/23iphone.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

10 Comments

archchef says...

Whats with the giant pretzel?

This is why I keep my phone nice and dumb.

oinkinstein says...

god, the audio sucks!

The good news is that besides this, the iPhone is troublesome to hackers.

Nice... This really encourages me to go to Apple.. NOT.
I'll never use i-anything.

Anyone who spends money on this phone and service wouldn't see or feel a train hitting them. Have it it...

Of course, there's a simple way to avoid this. Stop leeching other people's internet access! Similar things could happen on a PC if you go around trying to mate your laptop with every unprotected wifi hotspot.

To accomplish this at home, you will need an over-sized pretzel, a roll of transparent tape, and some post-its."

therealblankman

This is the reason operating systems need to have different levels of access employed. The iphone, like Windows 95 and 98, allows every single application to run at root. This is an incredible boon for hackers- if they can gain access, they will have complete control of the system. Unbelievable that Apple would make this fundamentally stupid mistake.

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