07-30-2009, 04:05 PM
More info here:
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30...?art_pos=3
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers...ckers.html
No, I don't believe they are spinning this out of control. This seems to be a real attack vector that will be publicly announced at a hacker conference Thursday afternoon (today).
This attack is not limited to the iPhone, but mentioning the iPhone makes it "news".
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30...?art_pos=3
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers...ckers.html
evilrobot wrote:
is this one of those 'proof of concept' examples that the uneducated media is spinning out of control?
No, I don't believe they are spinning this out of control. This seems to be a real attack vector that will be publicly announced at a hacker conference Thursday afternoon (today).
This attack is not limited to the iPhone, but mentioning the iPhone makes it "news".
The iPhone SMS bug is just one of a series that the researchers plan to reveal in their talk. They say they've also found a similar texting bug in Windows Mobile that allows complete remote control of Microsoft-based devices. Another pair of SMS bugs in the iPhone and Google's Android phones would purportedly allow a hacker to knock a phone off its wireless network for about 10 seconds with a series of text messages. The trick could be repeated again and again to keep the user offline, Miller says. Though Google has patched the Android flaw, this second iPhone bug also remains unpatched, he adds.