Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack 114
Al writes "Two researchers have found a way to run unauthorized code on an iPhone remotely. This is different than 'jailbreaking,' which requires physical access to the device. Normally applications have to be signed cryptographically by Apple in order to run. But Charles Miller of Independent Security Evaluators and Vincenzo Iozzo from the University of Milan found more than one instance in which Apple failed to prevent unauthorized data from executing. This means that a program can be loaded into memory as a non-executable block of data, after which the attacker can essentially flip a programmatic switch and make the data executable. The trick is significant, say Miller and Iozzo, because it provides a way to do something on a device after making use of a remote exploit. Details will be presented next month at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas." The attack was developed on version 2.0 of the iPhone software, and the researchers don't know if it will work when 3.0 is released.
frost pist (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Phone Viruses (Score:4, Funny)
To this date, I cannot think of any cell phone viruses that have existed and spread.
Windows Mobile ?
Woznia = phreak :: Jobs = control phreak (Score:3, Funny)
They went from blue boxes to beige boxes to white boxes. Now the white boxes themselves are getting blue-boxed ;-)
That is, play the right piece of software at 2600 Hz into the iPhone microphone and you can use it to access the whole network instead of Apple and AT&T's walled garden.
Only this time, the wall is on your phone and not the network.
Re:Dumbing down the text... (Score:2, Funny)
yehe, dem sai dat eyem sisks standird dieaveations twu da leaft
Re:Dumbing down the text... (Score:2, Funny)
He's saying that geeks are a random sample of the population with regard to intelligence, yes. If you've ever heard an MSCE call himself a geek, you'd agree.
Re:Dumbing down the text... (Score:3, Funny)
Very well said...that's one of the self-delusions of many in the geek community that really irritates me (that we're smarter ergo better than everyone else). It seems a lot of this goes along with the rise of geek chic.
But isn't the point of choosing to be in any social group an effort to feel better about oneself? Some geeks take the easy way out by making themselves feel taller by shoving people beneath them.